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The splendid Mercator volume is Marcel Watelet, ed., Gerhard Mercator, Cosmographe le Temps et I'Espace (Antwerp: Fonds Mercator Paribas, 1994).
Concerning the Putnam thefts in Chicago, consult Jennifer S. Larson, "An Enquiry into the Crerar Library Affair," AB Bookman's Weekly 86 (22 January 1990): 280-310.
The other books for which serious attempts have been made to compile a complete census include the Gutenberg Bible, Shakespeare's First Folio, and Audubon's Birds of America. See Seymour de Ricci, Catalogue raisonne des premieres impressions de Mayence (1445-1467) (Mainz: Gutenberg-gesellschaft, 1911); Paul Schwenke, Johannes Gutenbergs zyveiundviererigzeilige Bibel (Leipzig: Insel-verlag, 1923); Gerhardt Powitz, Die Frankfurter Gutenberg-Bibel (Frankfurt: V. Klostermann, c. 1990); Roland Folter, "The Gutenberg Bible in the Antiquarian Book Trade," in Martin Davies, ed., Incunabula: Studies in Fifteenth-century Booh Presented to Lotte Hellinga (London: British Library, 1999); Sir Sidney Lee, The First Folio Shakespeare [New York: Literary collector, April 1901]; Anthony James West, The Shakespeare First Folio: The History of the Book (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001-); Waldemar H. Fries, The Double Elephant Folio: The Story of Audubon's Birds of America (Chicago: American Library Association, 1973). Extensive lists of locations of other books have been prepared, generally without attempting to be definitive.
For an engrossing picture of A. S. W. Rosenbach as a wheeler-dealer, see Edwin Wolf 2nd with John F. Fleming, Rosenbach—A Biography (Cleveland and New York: World Publishing, 1960).
APPENDIX 1: FROM EQUANT TO EPICYCLET
The relevant papers by Edward S. Kennedy and his students, originally published in bis, are reprinted in Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences (Beirut:
American University of Beirut, 1983). A possible avenue for the Muslim devices to have reached Copernicus is discussed in Jerzy Dobrzycki and Richard L. Kremer, "Peurbach and Maragha Astronomy? The Ephemerides of Johannes Angelus and Their Implications," Journal for the History of Astronomy 27 (1996): 187-237.
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