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Coelum astronomico-poeticum sive mythologicum stellarum fixarum
Astronomisch-dichterischer oder mythologischer Fixsternhimmel
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Volume 169 in the series
Ausgaben deutscher Literatur des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts
Zesen's work deals with the constellations and the legends attached to them. In it, he processes the knowledge of astronomy of his age.
The first volume contains the original Latin text together with a parallel German translation.
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Volume 176 in the series
Ausgaben deutscher Literatur des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts
This commentary to Philipp von Zesen’s Coelum astronomico-poeticum (1662) documents over 3,000 references and citations in the text. This includes not only the authors and the works Zesen cites but also the sources on which he draws. In this way, the volume presents an exemplary picture of the compilatory technique that characterizes a large part of the scholarly writing of the era.
