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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Poeticon astronomicon
		Poeticon astronomicon is a star atlas whose text is attributed to "Hyginus", though the true authorship is disputed.
		The Poeticon astronomicon was not formally published until 1482, by Erhard Ratdolt in Venice, Italy.
		As a result of the inaccuracy of the depicted star positions and the fact that the constellations are not shown with any context, the Poeticon astronomicon is not particularly useful as a guide to the night sky.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Poeticon_astronomicon (303 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 535 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Although the larger portion of these narratives has been copied from obvious sources, they occasionally present the tales under new forms or with new circumstances, and hence are regarded with considerable interest by those who investigate such topics.
		Poeticon Astronomicon Libri IV., addressed to a certain M. Fabius.
		These works exhibit in many passages such gross ignorance, and are expressed in phraseology which, although not uniformly impure, frequently approaches so nearly to barbarism, that no scholar now believes that they could have proceeded in their present shape from a man renowned for
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1643.html (593 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 147 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Scholia on Germanicus do not constitute a regular commentary like the Scholia on Aratus, but are translations from Eratosthenes, with some excerpts, added subsequently perhaps, from the Sphaera Graeca et Barbara of Nigidius Figulus and other works on astronomical myths.
		The Poeticon Astronomicon, which bears the name of Hyginus, is written in the style of Eratosthenes, and is in a great measure borrowed from him.
		No notice is here taken of the Foal nor of the Southern Crown, which proves that at the time when it was composed, whenever that may have been, more attention was paid to Aratus than to Hipparchus and Ptolemy.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-dgra/0154.html (852 words)

	Hyginus
		The Poeticon Astronomicon was one of the primary ancient literary sources on the constellations.
		In the Renaissance the work was usually attributed to the Roman historian C. Julius Hyginus, who lived in the first century B.C., but we now know it was probably composed by some other Hyginus at a later date.
		The Poeticon was first published in the 1482 edition.
	www.lhl.lib.mo.us /services/digital/ebooks/hyginus/about.shtml (223 words)

	Number 51: Traditionally Conceptual/Occasionally Exceptional: Astronomicon™ (1997)
		It is speculated a large inspiration for the Poeticon was material from the original Astronomicon [undated].”}
		It became very clear to the Corporation that a marketing tool was needed to draw more attention to the book, to increase sales, and to increase awareness of the capabilities of the book.
		As mere written explanation became increasingly difficult to use in the description of it’s contents, the music would, in fact, paint a more vivid and illustrative picture, which would strengthen the realization that this book was full of more than any other in the history of civilization.
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	Poeticon astronomicon - Wikipédia
		Deux pages provenant de l'édition du Poeticon astronomicon publiée par Ratdolt, montrant les gravures des constellations de Cassiopée et Andromède.
		Le Poeticon astronomicon est un texte en prose, attribué à un certain Hygin (Iginius), mais la paternité réelle de cette œuvre reste incertaine.
		Le Poeticon semble également s'inspirer des Fenomena di Arato, texte d’astronomie assez répandu dans les écoles de l’Antiquité et du Moyen Âge.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poeticon_astronomicon (500 words)

	The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: Tiberius eBook
		He was, like Phaedrus, a freedman of Augustus; but, though industrious, he seems not to have improved himself so much as his companion, in the art of composition.
		He wrote, however, a mythological history, under the title of Fables, a work called Poeticon Astronomicon, with a treatise on agriculture, commentaries on Virgil, the lives of eminent men, and some other productions now lost.
		His remaining works are much mutilated, and, if genuine, afford an unfavourable specimen of his elegance and correctness as a writer.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/6388/43.html (583 words)

	Erläuterungen zu der Knopfkarte
		In one place, he described the earth as a wheel: "The circle of lands [orbis] is so called from its roundness, which is like that of a wheel, whence a small wheel is called orbiculus".
		In another passage, he seems to have misunderstood the Greek concept of parallel zones from his reading of the Poeticon Astronomicon of Hyginus.
		He took to literally the statement that the lines separating the zones should be drawn as circles on a globe, and disregarded the possibility that these might look different when drawn on a flat surface.
	www.uni-koeln.de /~ahz26/edition/oknopfka.htm (990 words)

	Astrology
		The present work is based upon the early Latin translations of Cicero, Avienus, and Germanicus Caesar.
		Hyginus’ Poeticon Astronomicon, a first century BCE work on the mythical origins of the zodiac figures and based upon the writing of Aratus and Eratosthenes, has been included as a kind of thematic commentary.
		With elegantly wrought woodcuts of astronomical allegories and constellations.
	www.daileyrarebooks.com /Astrology.htm (5321 words)

	PART 2 – Ch
		But Prometheus, with his titanic skills, stole from the eternal fire of Jove a few sparks, which he brought and presented to the mortals [2].
		Hyginus also tells this legend but with some more details (Poeticon astronomicon.
		According to what he says, the ancients used to sacrifice to gods in great ceremonies, in which they burned whole carcasses, and because of this waste the poor could not make sacrifices.
	www.pelasgians.bigpondhosting.com /website2/14_02.htm (2430 words)

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		QB 23.H93 1482 R.B. Clarissimi viri Iginij Poeticon astronomicon : opus vtilissimmu foeliciter incipit : de mundi [et] sph[a]erae ac vtriusq[ue] partiu[m] declaratio[n]e liber primus prohemium / [Hyginus].
		Other titles: Poetica astronomica / Poetica astronomica / Poeticon astronomicon
		Library has an English translation of this volume at QB 802.S84 1997
	www.usno.navy.mil /library/rare/Hyginus.htm (100 words)

	Erhard Ratdolt Summary
		There he produced a Kalendario (1476) for Regiomontanus, and editions of the Historia Romana of Appianus (1477), and Euclid's Elements (1482), solving the problem of reproducing mathematical diagrams.
		Other works were the Poeticon astronomicon, also from 1482, Haly Abenragel (1485),and Alchabitius (1503).
		He returned to Augsburg, where he continued in business as a printer.
	www.bookrags.com /Erhard_Ratdolt (196 words)

	Amazon.ca: Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans: A Sourcebook: Books: Theony Condos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		If you want a learned (if brief) overview of how the Greek and Roman constellations were named, by whom, and what stars are contained therein, then you've got the right volume!
		Theony Condos, the translator, draws mostly on two prime sources; Poeticon Astronomicon (Poetic Astronomy), attributed to Hyginus; and Catasterismi (The Constellations), by Eratothenes.
		In the introduction, Condos discusses the backgrounds of Hyginus and Eratothenes, their influences and sources, and some supporting and relating works by their contemporaries and historical peers.
	www.amazon.ca /Myths-Greeks-Romans-Theony-Condos/dp/1890482935 (704 words)

	BOOK HISTORY TIMETABLE
		From his name was the term Wagoner for seecharts derived
		Poeticon Astronomicon by Erhard Ratdolt, illustrated with allegorical woodcuts
		POITIERS, DIANA DE Mistress of Henry II, lobbied succesfully for a passage of an ordinace that required French publishers to present copies of every book they issued to the libraries of Blois and Fontainebleau.
	faculty.washington.edu /jcjc/timetable/timetabc6.html (800 words)

	AbeBooks: Search Results - Hygini
		Diese Ausgabe enthält zwei dem latinischen Sprachwissenschaftler Hyginus zugeschriebenen Werke: «Fabularum liber» und sein astronomisches Werk, das «Poeticon Astronomicon».
		Beautiful copy of a book which is Dutch in every respect -- editor, publisher, illustration, and binding First edition.
		Contemporary tree calf, gilt-stamped arms on upper cover lettered in gilt beneath ÒZWOLLAEÓspine richly gilt with raised bands and red leather label, covers with gilt-stamped civic arms of the Dutch town of Zwolle (stamped ÒZwoll¾Ó beneath arms), beautifully marbled edges and endpapers.
	www.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/kn/Hygini (2235 words)

	Orpington AS - Event Reports - 2005
		Peter had selected a small number of treasures to show us.
		Among them were copies of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium", a couple of Galileo's works, "Istoria e Dimonstrazione Intorno" and "Sidereus Nuncius", and Caius Hyginus' "Poeticon Astronomicon" which contains some of the oldest printed start charts.
		It was nearly 1:00pm by the time we emerged into the London drizzle and headed for a nearby pub to get some lunch.
	www.chocky.demon.co.uk /oas/events2005.html (1325 words)

	Trove.net -- Clarissimi Viri Iginii Poeticon Astronomicon opus vtilissimmu foeliciter incipit. De mundi [et] spherae ac ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Trove.net -- Clarissimi Viri Iginii Poeticon Astronomicon opus vtilissimmu foeliciter incipit.
		Clarissimi Viri Iginii Poeticon Astronomicon opus vtilissimmu foeliciter incipit.
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	www.trove.net /MOHG0002/MOHG0002_000244.html (93 words)

	Whipple Library: Special collections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		English works of practical mathematics, including the production of Thomas Digges, Robert Recorde, John Blagrave and John Napier complement the editions of ancient works of mathematics by the Italian Commandino and Tartaglia.
		Johannes Angelus' Astrolabium (Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 1488), Hyginus' Poeticon astronomicon opus (Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 1482) and Gerardus Cremonensis' Theorica planetaru[m] feliciter incipit (Venice: Franciscus Renner [Franz Renner] de Hailbrun, 1478), originally bound with Iohannis de Sacrobusto anglici viri clarissimi Spera Mundi, are the incunables presented by Whipple.
		Woodcut of Ptolemy observing the stars with a quadrant, guided by Astronomy.
	www.hps.cam.ac.uk /library/speccoll.html (2663 words)

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