Tractatus brevis et utilis, de erigendis figuris coeli, verificationibus, revolutionibus & directionibus
By: autore Iohanne Garcaeo, Iuniore
Edition: [2nd ed.].
Publisher: Excudebat Iohannes Schwertel
Published: 1583
Place of publication: Witebergae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Astronomy; Early works to 1800
Notes: Folded charts.

Printer's woodcut device on t.p.

This treatise on erecting figures of the sky contains an early mention and appreciation of Copernicus as "the outstanding artificer of our age."

Houzeau, J.C. and Lancaster, A.  Bibliog. générale de l'astronomie jusqu'en 1880, 1964, 49864

Zinner, E.  Geschichte und Bibliog. der astronomischen Literatur in Deutschland zur Zeit der Renaissance, 1941, #2623