Almagestum Novum, De Spæra mundi in communi, p. 1

Page image from bound volume which has the following bibliographic description: 1 volume in 2. : illustrations, maps (2 folding), plates, diagrams, tables ; 37 cmAlmagstum novum was one of the earliest published books on astronomy. Riccioli gave names to craters and mountains on the moon. Most of the names are still in use. A competent astronomer and Jesuit priest, Riccoli published his massive New Almagest, a work that treated the efforts of both Copernicus and Kepler but which sought to show that the earth does not move