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Elementa doctrinae sphaericae, eller En kort og tilstraekkelig underretning om jord- og himmel-kuglernes brug, uddragen og oversat af vores vidtberømte mathematici, herr professor Peder Horrebows.
Kiøbenhavn, Høppfner, 1750. 8vo. In a modest contemporary half calf binding, with considerably wear. Verso on front board annotated in pencil. Internally nice and clean. 90, (6) pp. + 2 folded plates (Not mentioned in Biblioteca Danica).
Rare first edition of Horrebow's textbook on astronomy. “(Horrebow) was a personal assistant to Ole Römer for four years. In 1714 he was made professor at the university and director of the observatory he held this position for fifty years, although two of his sons had to take care of his professional duties during his last years. He was a member of the academies of Copenhagen, Berlin, and Paris. Horrebow’s scientific life was shaped by two major influences. The first was his daily association during his youth with Römer, of whom Horrebow later spoke with the greatest devotion. Second, in the great fire in Copenhagen in 1728 nearly all of Römer’s papers and unpublished observations were destroyed together with Horrebow’s own observations" and from that time on it remained a matter of personal honor for Horrebow to describe fully Röer’s scientific achievements in order to preserve them for posterity. Throughout his lifetime Horrebow was a fertile author. He wrote several textbooks on astronomy, mathematics, and navigation which had a considerable influence at the university and at Danish schools."" (DSB) Biblioteca Danica II, 65 (does not mention the two plates present here).
Elementa philosophiae naturalis.
Hafniæ (Copenhagen), Lynowii, 1748. 4to. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, a few small holes to boards. Head of spine with loss of leather, showing headbands. Internally fine and clean. Printed on good paper with wide marginse. 206, (2) pp.
Rare first edition of Horrebow’s textbook on natural philosophy with a focus on astronomy. When young Horrebow had intensively studied Casper Bartholin’s work “Specimen philosophiae naturalis” and wanted to revise and possibly expand it:“When during the period 1747-53 the ageing professor of astronomy, Peder Horrebow, held the chair of physics, too, he felt the need for revising the praiseworthy ‘Specimen’, the 56 years old, from which he had himself in his youth acquired his knowledge of natural philosophy. And after having in vain tried to comment upon the ‘specimen’ and to change its text as well as its ordering of subjects he finally produced a completely new text-book [The present].” (Dobrzycki, The Reception of Copernicus’ Heliocentric Theory).
Anonymous review-paper of Horrebow's ""Basis Astronomia"" in ""Nova Acta Eruditorum"".
Leipzig, Gleditsch & Grossius, 1736. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Nova Acta Eruditorum"", Anno 1736, No. III (September March issue). Pp. 97-144 (entire issue ofefred). The review-paper: pp. 123-127 and 1 engraved plate showing Ole Roemer observing with one of his large instruments. Wide-margines. Some brownspots.
Roemers astronomical instruments were the best of his time. In the work by Peder Horrebow, Roemer's pupil and successor as professor in astronomy in Copenhagen, here reviewed, describes the instruments in detail as well as Roemer's observational methods.
Thalia, et Blad for Skuespilyndere, udgivet 1795 og 1796. (No. 1-9, det udkomne).
Kjøbenhavn, S. Poulsen, 1796. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldt titeletiket. Øverste kapitæl slidt. Kobberstukket titel (Thorvaldsen del. - Flink sc.). XVI,239 pp.
originaltrykket. - Bibl. Dan.I,1091.
