SCHOTT, ORGANUM MATHEMATICUM, WURZBURG, 1668, CONTEMPORARY VELLUM

i. Organum mathematicum libris IX explicatum. Würzburg: Jobst Hertz for Johann Andreas Endter & the heirs of Wolfgang the younger at Nuremberg, 1668, FIRST EDITION, 4to, title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, portrait, and 61 plates (of 63), 19 folding or double-page, 25 folding or double-page printed tables (of 28), engraved illustrations in the text, errata leaf at end, contemporary vellum, (Johann Bernhard Graf von Herberstein (1630-1685) initials and date 1678, lettered in gilt on upper cover; Count von Nostitz (1648-1712), bookplate; Robert B. Honeyman (1897-1987), sale in these rooms, 19 May 1981, lot 2818, E.P. Goldschmidt; bought from Goldschmidt, London, 1981), [T&W S57; Dünnhaupt p.3822 no. 14; Origins of Cyberspace 15; VD17 12:196964H], a few minor faults (wormholes/tears in p.205 and pp.219-225 and adjacent plates), lacks 2 plates and 3 tablesii. Pantometrum Kircherianum, hoc est, instrumentum geometricum novum. Würzburg: Johann Jobst Hertz for Johann Gottfried Schönwetter, 1660, 4to, 32 engraved plates, contemporary vellum, (Bibliothèque de Mr de Joubert, tresorier des etats de Languedoc, bookplate; bought from Rogers Turner, 1987), [T&W S58; cf. Dünnhaupt p.3815 no. 5.1], lacks engraved title, browned, binding pitted, lacking head and foot of spine

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Schott's Organum mathematicum was published posthumously with sections on arithmetic, geometry, fortification, astronomy, astrology, cryptography and music. Schott was a pupil of Kircher and in Pantometrum Kircherianum he describes a form of surveyor's plane table (called by Kircher a pantometrum) as well as a few other instruments.