Urbium Praecipuarum Totius Orbis Descriptio Generalis. Incujus Prima Parte Continentur civitates Europae
| Reference: | CO-234 |
| Author | Adrian van Roomen |
| Year: | 1595 |
| Zone: | Central Italy |
| Printed: | Frankfurt |
| Measures: | 68 x 55 mm |
€450.00
| Reference: | CO-234 |
| Author | Adrian van Roomen |
| Year: | 1595 |
| Zone: | Central Italy |
| Printed: | Frankfurt |
| Measures: | 68 x 55 mm |
€450.00
Description
Carta geografica dell’Italia centrale tratta dalla rara prima edizione del Parvum theatrum urbium sive urbium praecipuarum totius orbis brevis et methodica descriptio. Urbium praecipuarum totius orbis brevis et methodica description del 1595.
L'editore di Francoforte Nikolaus Basse realizzò nel 1587 uno "Stätte-Buch" con testo tedesco di Abraham Saur e, visto il grande successo, progettò la presente edizione latina per una più ampia diffusione, per la quale Adrian van Roomen (lat. Romanus, 1561-1615, professore di medicina e matematica a Lovanio e Würzburg) scrisse il testo. Le 67 vedute di città e piante xilografiche mostrano soprattutto città tedesche, ma anche del Portogallo, dei Paesi Bassi, della Francia, della Svizzera, dell'Italia, di Costantinopoli e di Gerusalemme (queste ultime a tutta pagina). Le prime tre parti riguardano l'Europa, l'Asia e l'Africa. Particolarmente interessante è la quarta parte, che tratta delle Americhe, Nova Francia, Florida, Nova Hispania, Nova Galicia, Civola, Yucatan, Fundura, Cuba, Borichen, Santo Domingo, Giamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Cartagena, Brasile, Perù ecc.
“Senza graduazione ai margini, priva di scala e di orientazione - approssimativamente verso l'alto è il NNE, è carta di minime dimensioni. Rappresenta la parte centrale della penisola italiana da Padova a Roma segnalando le città maggiori, Perugia compresa, e abbozzando in modo estremamente elementare, ma inaccettabile per posizione e configurazione, il disegno di alcuni corsi d'acqua, senza indicarne peraltro il nome. Troppo scarse sono le informazioni desumibili dalla figura per identificare l'opera da cui è tratta questa carta a piccolissima scala, probabilmente proveniente da un volumetto in lingua tedesca e di sicura ispirazione münsteriana. In effetti, notevoli analogie emergono ad un confronto con l'edizione italiana della Cosmographia Universalis del Münster (1575). Di difficile interpretazione è anche il cartiglio "agitato" da una figura maschile. Theatrum Urbium forse è il titolo di un capitolo o paragrafo (Theatrum è denominazione notoriamente utilizzata a partire dalla seconda metà del sec. XVI, da considerare dunque dato idoneo alla datazione, per quanto approssimata). Il testo del foglio in cui il disegno è compreso fa riferimento a luoghi diversi che lasciano ipotizzare un "itinerarium" o guida tascabile per viaggiatori che si spingevano da Oltralpe in Italia, o diretti in Paesi del Mediterraneo orientale, per lo più a Costantinopoli e Gerusalemme” (cfr. Le Antiche terre del Ducato di Spoleto n. 4, come anonimo, edizione tedesca del 1587).
Xilografia, finemente colorata a mano, in ottimo stato di conservazione. Rara.
Bibliografia
F. Ronca, A. Sorbini, Le Antiche terre del Ducato di Spoleto n. 4 (come anonimo, edizione tedesca del 1587); Adams R 694; Alden 608/145; Borba de Moraes 747; Fauser LXIV; Sabin 73000.
Adrian van Roomen (Lovanio 1561 – Magonza 1615)
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Adriaan van Roomen (29 September 1561 – 4 May 1615), also known as Adrianus Romanus, was a mathematician, professor of medicine and medical astronomer from the Duchy of Brabant in the Habsburg Netherlands who was active throughout Central Europe in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. As a mathematician he worked in algebra, trigonometry and geometry; and on the decimal expansion of π. He solved the Problem of Apollonius using a new method that involved intersecting hyperbolas. He also wrote on the Gregorian calendar reform. Van Roomen was born in Leuven, the son of Adriaan Van Roomen and Maria Van Den Daele. He was educated partly in Leuven and partly After studying at the Jesuit College in Cologne, also attending the University of Cologne where he began his study of medicine. He also briefly studied medicine at Leuven University. Roomen was professor of mathematics and medicine at Louvain from 1586 to 1592. He met Kepler, and discussed with François Viète two questions about equations and tangencies. He then spent some time in Italy, particularly with Clavius in Rome in 1585. His publication of 1595, Parvum theatrum urbium, contained Latin verse on the cities of Italy (possibly written by Thomas Edwards). In June 1593 Van Roomen became the inaugural professor of medicine at the newly refounded University of Würzburg. He was also appointed physician in ordinary to the court of Rudolf II. From around 1595 to 1603 he produced calendars, almanacs and prognostications published under the patronage of Julius Echter, prince-bishop of Würzburg. At the same time, he served as mathematician of the king of Poland and become famous for the computation of the value of Pi to sixteen decimals, surpassing François Viète who had arrived at ten digits. After being widowed he was ordained to the priesthood in 1604 and on 8 October 1608 was installed as a canon of the collegiate church of St John the Evangelist in Würzburg. His Mathesis Polemica, published in Frankfurt in 1605, explained the military applications of mathematics. In June 1610 he was in Prague, after which he travelled to Poland at the invitation of Jan Zamoyski to give public lectures on mathematics at Zamość in Red Ruthenia. He made the return journey via Hungary, arriving back in Würzburg at the end of 1611. Struggling with health problems, Van Roomen undertook a journey to Spa to take the waters but died en route at Mainz in the arms of his son, who was travelling with him.
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Adrian van Roomen (Lovanio 1561 – Magonza 1615)
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Adriaan van Roomen (29 September 1561 – 4 May 1615), also known as Adrianus Romanus, was a mathematician, professor of medicine and medical astronomer from the Duchy of Brabant in the Habsburg Netherlands who was active throughout Central Europe in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. As a mathematician he worked in algebra, trigonometry and geometry; and on the decimal expansion of π. He solved the Problem of Apollonius using a new method that involved intersecting hyperbolas. He also wrote on the Gregorian calendar reform. Van Roomen was born in Leuven, the son of Adriaan Van Roomen and Maria Van Den Daele. He was educated partly in Leuven and partly After studying at the Jesuit College in Cologne, also attending the University of Cologne where he began his study of medicine. He also briefly studied medicine at Leuven University. Roomen was professor of mathematics and medicine at Louvain from 1586 to 1592. He met Kepler, and discussed with François Viète two questions about equations and tangencies. He then spent some time in Italy, particularly with Clavius in Rome in 1585. His publication of 1595, Parvum theatrum urbium, contained Latin verse on the cities of Italy (possibly written by Thomas Edwards). In June 1593 Van Roomen became the inaugural professor of medicine at the newly refounded University of Würzburg. He was also appointed physician in ordinary to the court of Rudolf II. From around 1595 to 1603 he produced calendars, almanacs and prognostications published under the patronage of Julius Echter, prince-bishop of Würzburg. At the same time, he served as mathematician of the king of Poland and become famous for the computation of the value of Pi to sixteen decimals, surpassing François Viète who had arrived at ten digits. After being widowed he was ordained to the priesthood in 1604 and on 8 October 1608 was installed as a canon of the collegiate church of St John the Evangelist in Würzburg. His Mathesis Polemica, published in Frankfurt in 1605, explained the military applications of mathematics. In June 1610 he was in Prague, after which he travelled to Poland at the invitation of Jan Zamoyski to give public lectures on mathematics at Zamość in Red Ruthenia. He made the return journey via Hungary, arriving back in Würzburg at the end of 1611. Struggling with health problems, Van Roomen undertook a journey to Spa to take the waters but died en route at Mainz in the arms of his son, who was travelling with him.
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