Florence: Filippo Giunta, 1512.
The first edition of Neo-Latin poet Girolamo Angeriano's book of erotic verse, inspired by a certain Celia, who may or may not have existed. The 198 poems are each between two and twenty lines in elegiac couplets, plus a prefatory quatrain in which Angeriano quietly discourages.....
Basel: Oporinus, 1550.
In the 1549 first edition of the Initia doctrinæ physicæ—essentially the first scientific textbook of the Reformation—Philipp Melanchthon refutes the heliocentrism of Copernicus with a single blow, invoking Ecclesiastes 4:5: “The earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets.” Moreover, he writes, referring to Copernicus.....