📚 🐲 **Dragons in the Astronomicum Caesareum**

"_In 1540, humanist polymath, mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, professor, and printer, Peter Apian (1495-1552) published one of the most lavishly illustrated scientific books ever printed. Dedicated to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and his brother, Ferdinand I, the Astronomicum Caesareum (Imperial Astronomy) contains 21 volvelles and 58 hand-colored woodcuts that involve some of the most spectacular computational dragons in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division._"

🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2025/07/18/dragons-in-the-astronomicum-caesareum/.

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