Frontispiz, Ricciolis model against Copernicus., The female figure is a combination of Astraea, with Libra as Goddess of Justice, and Urania with Celestial Globe and Starry Robe, as Muse of Astronomy, Signed: F. Curtus Bon., Incid, Fig. 1, frontispiece, Curti, Francesco (inc.), Benacci, Héritiers de Vittorio (imp.), 1651, Giovanni Battista Riccioli: Almagestum novum astronomiam veterem novamque complectens observatiobus aliorum et propriis novisque theorematibus, problematibus ac tabulis promotam in tres tomos distributam [...]. Bononiae: ex typographia haeredis Victorii Benatii, 1651-1665, Re

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