Piccolomini
De la sfera del mondo. Libri quattro in lingua tos cana: I quali non per via di traduttione, ne a qual si voglia particolare scrittore obligate. Venice, al segno del Pozzo, 1540.
Alessandro Piccolomini (1508-1578) advocated Ptolemaic astronomy, though he took issue with the Aristotelian and Ptolemaic view that there was more water than land.
His interests were manifold; he wrote comedies and sonnets, translated classical works, commented on Aristotle's mechanics, and was a professor of philosophy. Sfera del mondo, the book shown here, is one of his astronomical works.
