AAS Meeting #194 - Chicago, Illinois, May/June 1999
Session 33. HAD III: Gender, Observatories, Planetariums
Historical, Oral, Monday, May 31, 1999, 2:00-3:30pm, Continental Ballroom C

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[33.01] Rare Astronomy Books at Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico

D.J. de Alba-Marti\'nez (Instituto de Astronomi\'a y M., CUCEI, Universidad de Guadalajara)

A brief view of astronomy titles at Special Funds Section from main library of the Universidad de Guadalajara is do. Some diagrams appearing in our Sacrobosco's Sphaera Mundi edition ( < 1485) that no in previous editions, are shown and described. Also are shown marginalia in a Copernicus' first edition (1543) of De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium and some hypothesis on their origins. Other author reviewed is Athanasius Kircher.

This work was partially supported by Universidad de Guadalajara.

If the author provided an email address or URL for general inquiries, it is a s follows:

dalba@udgserv.cencar.udg.mx

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