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152020508Lyon, Jacques Myt für Jacques u. François Giunta, 1. X. 1520. 403 (falsch 195) num., 9 unn. Bll., mit Titelholzschnitt, mehrteiliger Titelbordüre, Druckermarke und vielen Initialen. 8°. Holzdeckelband der Zeit mit blindgeprägtem braunem Kalbslederbezug u. 2 Schließen.
15551805240137Paris: Parisiis: Guil. Morelius apud Adrianum Turnebum typographicus Regium 1555. Hardcover. Good. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics in 10 books. Bound in 17th century morocco. 6 raised bands gilt ruled. Front hinge cracked. Gilt stamping to front board. All edges marbled. Marbled end pages. Small folio 29 cm. 4 253 1 pages. Text printed in parallel columns Greek and Latin. Pages generally unmarked. Minor toning. Some faded early marginalia. Adams A1810; BM STC French 1470-1600; p. 26. Colophon: Excudebat et cum graecis latina coniungebat Guil. Morelius M.D. LV. xii. Cal. Martias. <br> Book plate of Leon J Agourides "Knowledge is power." <br> Other titles: Aristotelis de moribvs ad Nicomachvm Lib. X. Aristotelis De moribus ad Nicomachum lib. XDe moribus ad Nicomachum lib. X Parisiis: Guil. Morelius, apud Adrianum Turnebum typographicus Regium hardcover
154866468Basileæ Basel: Ex Officina Joan. Oporini Joannes Oporinus 1548. Good. Second volume of a work in three volumes. 667pp. Quarto 33 cm Mid-17th-century vellum binding likely Spanish but possibly Italian. Bold manuscript title on the spine. Gauffered edges. With tanned skin sewing supports. Initial letters. Text block hanging on to wraps by a single leather cord. Missing title page and prefatory pages to Aristotle's work on auscultation. Text block cracked a couple of times at the rear. Light marginal tidemarks to the preliminary pages. Occasional manuscript notations. Pages exceptionally bright. Latin text.<br /> <br /> Contents:<br /> <br /> Aristotelis Stagiritae Physicae Auscultationis Io. Argyropylo Byzantio Interprete: Liber Primus; Liber Secundus; Liber Tertius; Liber IIII; Liber V; Liber VI; Liber VII; Liber VIII.<br /> <br /> Aristotelis Stagiritae De Coelo Io. Argyropylo Byzantio Interprete: Liber Primus; Liber Secundus; Liber Tertius; Liber Quartus.<br /> <br /> Epistola Nuncupatoria ad Leonem.<br /> <br /> Aristotelis Stagiritae Peripa Teticae Disciplinae Autoris: Liber De Generatione & Interitu Prior Latinus á Petro Alcyonio factus; Liber De Generatione et Interitu Posterior Latinus á Petro Alcyonio factus.<br /> <br /> Petrus Alcyonius Antonio Prato S. P. D.<br /> <br /> Aristotelis Stagiritae Meteoron Petro Alcyonio Interprete: Liber Primus; Liber Alter; Liber Tertius; Liber Quartus.<br /> <br /> Aristotelis Stagiritae De Anima Ioan Argyropylo Byzantio Interprete: Liber Primus; Liber Secundus; Liber Tertius.<br /> <br /> Petri Alcyonii In Libros Decem Aristotelis De Animalibus Se Autore Latinos Praefatio Ad Octavium Pregosium.<br /> <br /> Aristotelis Stagiritae De Sensu et Sensilibus Aut De Communibus Animae et Corporis Functionibus Liber Eodum Petro Alcyonio Interprete.<br /> <br /> Aristotelis Stagiritae De Memoria et Reminiscentia Liber Eodum Petro Alcyonio Interprete.<br /> <br /> Aristotelis Stagiritae De Somno Liber Eodum Petro Alcyonio Interprete.<br /> <br /> Aristotelis Stagiritae De Somniis et Imaginibus Liber Eodum Petro Alcyonio Interprete.<br /> <br /> Aristotelis Stagiritae De Communi Animalium Motione Liber Eodum Petro Alcyonio Interprete.<br /> <br /> Aristotelis Stagiritae De Communi Animalium Gressu Liber Eodum Petro Alcyonio Interprete.<br /> <br /> Aristotelis Stagiritae De Diuturnitate et Brevitate Vitae Liber Eodum Petro Alcyonio Interprete.<br /> <br /> Aristotelis Stagiritae De Spiratione Liber Eodum Petro Alcyonio Interprete.<br /> <br /> Theodori Gazae Thessalonicensis In Libros Aristotelis De Animalibus.<br /> <br /> Aristotelis Stagiritae De Historia Animalium Theodoro Gaza Interprete: Liber Primus; Liber Secundus; Liber Tertius; Liber Quartus; Liber Quintus; Liber Sextus; Liber Septimus; Liber Octavus; Liber Nonus.<br /> <br /> Aristotelis De Partibus Animalium et Earum Causis Theodoro Gaza Interprete: Liber Primus; Liber Secundus; Liber Tertius; Liber Quartus.<br /> <br /> Aristotelis Stagiritae De Generatione Animalium Theodoro Gaza Interprete: Liber Primus; Liber Secundus; Liber Tertius; Liber Quartus; Liber Quintus.<br /> <br /> Aristotelis Problematum Sectiones Duædequadraginta Theodoro Gaza Interprete. The second volume of Aristotle's works published by Joannes Oporinus containing the following works: On Auscultation; On the Heavens; On Coming-to Be and Passing Away; Meterology; On the Soul; On Sense and the Sensible; On Memory and Recollection; On Sleep; On Dreams and Images; On the Common Motion of Animals; On the Common Gait of Animals; On the Longness and Shortness of Life; On Breathing; On the History of Animals; On the Parts of Animals and Their Causes; On the Generation of Animals; Aristotle's Problems Section.<br /> <br /> Aristotle 384-322 B.C.E. was born in Stagira in northeastern Greece. He ranks among the greatest philosophers of all time. His works defined centuries of philosophy from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance and are still considered relevant today. A remarkable researcher and writer Aristotle produced nearly two-hundred treatises from which about thirty-one survive. His extant writings cover an extensive range of disciplines including logic metaphysics and philosophy of mind ethics political theory and aesthetics and rhetoric. In addition Aristotle's works explore non-philosophical realms as well such as empirical biology where he provided detailed animal and plant observation and description.<br /> <br /> A scholarly work in a striking vellum binding. Ex Officina Joan. Oporini (Joannes Oporinus) unknown
1569D11176Venice: Hieronymus Scotum Scotus 1569. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio 315 x 215mm. 2 150pp. 2. Signatures: A-I 8 K4. Io. Grammatici in cartouche at head of title page. Woodcut profile bust of Aristotle on title with dedication Peripateticae Disciplina Principis Vera Aristotelis Stagiritae Effigies. Final leaf with woodcut printers device of Scotus of griffin in animated cartouche head-pieces and initials throughout. Text printed in double columns. Italic and Roman type. Original limp vellum vertically ruled in brown ink to front cover; edges slightly curled minor marginal dampstaining at beginning and end otherwise clean. Near contemporary ownership inscriptions in Latin on front flyleaf mostly faded but name and order of at least two young men Salvatoris and Bartolomei are given. 19th century stamp of the Seminario Vescovile of Volterra on title. The Tuscan Jesuit Seminary dedicated to Saint Andrew employed student novices throughout its history and one would have likely used this copy. Interestingly the seminary is still active today and maintains lodgings for travelers. This copy is further enhanced by a full-page pencil doodle of a mythological composition muses putti and foliate boughs on the rear flyleaf probably completed in the seventeenth century. <br/><br/>The last 1569 Scotus edition of Philoponuss commentary on the Posterior Analytics of Aristotle; an example-laden investigatory explanation on the classification of scientific knowledge Byzantine-era Philoponuss comments on the Posterior Analytics of Aristotle are interesting especially for their metaphysical analysis of the universal idea his account revealed his beliefs in Platonic forms as inherently part of the Divine Intellect. In his further reading of the Posterior Analytics Philoponus aimed to share his understanding of the concept of subordinate sciences which are sciences that can be classified by genus and species. A notion he supported was the idea that some sciences depended on higher ones for some of their principles Philoponus even goes as far to suggest formulating a taxonomy of the sciences. He maintains that philosophy dialectic and all the sciences employ common axioms regarding philosophy in particular it discovers and demonstrates the very principles of every science. Importantly Philoponus decided to take on this work because he thought that Aristotles concepts were too difficult and needed explanation. It was not the first he was indebted to the earlier work of Theophrastus and Galen but Philoponuss work is the earliest to survive. Philoponuss train of thought is frequently obscure and much of the discussion being carried out chooses investigatory examples over blatant argument. He wished to expound the meaning of the Aristotelian text rather than raising objections. It is clear Philoponus engages vigorously with the earlier commentators on the Posterior Analytics thus like most ancient commentaries this one maintains certain importance for the constitution of the text on which it comments. Scotus a prominent Venetian printer and elegant producer of texts was actively publishing a line of these philosophical treatises which were frequently revised and reprinted. The first Latin translation by Theodosius was published in 1539 and was reprinted frequently until 1569. This work remains important to the evolving tradition of early sixteenth century Italian university logic. Rare in North America OCLC lists holdings for this edition only at University of Oklahoma as part of the History of Science Collection. Hieronymus Scotum (Scotus) hardcover books
15496034Firenze, Lorenzo Torrentino, 1549. Petit in-4 de 420-[20]p. pour la table, demi-basane brune, dos lisse orné de filets et fleurons dorés, pièce de titre rouge (coins émoussés, quelques très rares rousseurs). Reliure XIXe ème.
155567038Venice:: I. Gryphius 1555. contemporary limp vellum. Marginal worming to Biii - Diiiii; vellum soiled and a little worn; fragments of leather ties present. . Folio. Engraved vignette on title page and a few text illustrations. A few old marginal annotations associated with underlined text. I. Gryphius, hardcover
1542133014Parisiis: Ex officina Prigentii Caluarini ad Geminas Cyppas in Clauso Brunello 1542. Rare 16th century French printing of Aristotle's pioneering work on zoology which had a powerful influence on zoology for over two thousand years. Octavo bound in full polished calf engraved title pages. Rebacked. In very good condition. Written in the fourth century B.C.E. Aristotle's History of Animals had a powerful influence on zoology for some two thousand years. Generally seen as a pioneering work of zoology Aristotle frames his text by explaining that he is investigating the what the existing facts about animals prior to establishing the why the causes of these characteristics. The book is thus an attempt to apply philosophy to part of the natural world. Throughout the work Aristotle seeks to identify differences both between individuals and between groups. The work contains many accurate eye-witness observations in particular of the marine biology around the island of Lesbos such as that the octopus had color-changing abilities and a sperm-transferring tentacle that the young of a dogfish grow inside their mother's body and that the male river catfish guards the eggs after the female has left. Some of these were long considered fanciful before being rediscovered in the nineteenth century. It continued to be a primary source of knowledge until in the sixteenth century zoologists including Conrad Gessner all influenced by Aristotle wrote their own studies of the subject. Ex officina Prigentii Caluarini ad Geminas Cyppas in Clauso Brunello unknown
1545D11150Venice: Hieronymus Scotus 1545. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 157 x 106mm. 8 307pp. 13 leaves including final blank. Woodcut printers device of Scotus with personification of globe and motto FIAT PAX IN VIRTUTE Peace be with thee. Latin translation by Theodore Gaza. 12-line woodcut historiated initials at beginning of first chapter and at beginning of the Universalis generationis partitio. p. 224 of heraldry. Few woodcut initials throughout. Contemporary vellum; worn; spine and covers darkened; scattered stains worming affecting title next leaf and last 3 leaves; edges stained brown and gauffered to floral pattern. Sound copy enhanced by Latin marginalia in an contemporary hand. The Renaissance public as a part of their reading system frequently engaged Aristotles natural writings. Even at the height of this period at a time when Theodore Gaza had already produced his celebrated versions of Aristotles zoological corpus these works obtained wide recognition. <br/><br/>Aristotles zoological works edited by Theodore Gaza with Italian Renaissance commentary sparked on by the availability of Gazas text. Gazas version of the treatises were paraphrases of Aristotles zoological works but also included personal observations and information drawn from the other authors. Gaza in fact held a virtual monopoly on the biological works of Aristotle his translation completely overshadowing those before him and especially of his rival George of Trebizond. Gazas text had been used mainly as a source of quotations and only in philological and medical works such as Castigationes plinianae by Ermolao Barbaro or Benedettis Historia corporis humani. By 1521 starting with a course on the De Partibus animalium held in Bologna did the official Renaissance tradition of interpretation on Aristotles zoology take form. The Latin text which contributed to this renewed interest was none other than the elegant translation by Gaza. University Aristotelianism specifically that concerning the zoology was approached by the various interpreters in the context of systematic exploration of the encyclopedic work as a whole. The ample annotations of this volume showcase precisely this type of interaction with the evolving conversation. Gazas work throws light on Renaissance Aristotelianism carried out through the grid of scholastic commentary. Hieronymus Scotus hardcover
1545D11150Venice: Hieronymus Scotus 1545. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 157 x 106mm. 8 307pp. 13 leaves including final blank. Woodcut printers device of Scotus with personification of globe and motto FIAT PAX IN VIRTUTE Peace be with thee. Latin translation by Theodore Gaza. 12-line woodcut historiated initials at beginning of first chapter and at beginning of the Universalis generationis partitio. p. 224 of heraldry. Few woodcut initials throughout. Contemporary vellum; worn; spine and covers darkened; scattered stains worming affecting title next leaf and last 3 leaves; edges stained brown and gauffered to floral pattern. Sound copy enhanced by Latin marginalia in an contemporary hand. The Renaissance public as a part of their reading system frequently engaged Aristotles natural writings. Even at the height of this period at a time when Theodore Gaza had already produced his celebrated versions of Aristotles zoological corpus these works obtained wide recognition. <br/><br/>Aristotles zoological works edited by Theodore Gaza with Italian Renaissance commentary sparked on by the availability of Gazas text. Gazas version of the treatises were paraphrases of Aristotles zoological works but also included personal observations and information drawn from the other authors. Gaza in fact held a virtual monopoly on the biological works of Aristotle his translation completely overshadowing those before him and especially of his rival George of Trebizond. Gazas text had been used mainly as a source of quotations and only in philological and medical works such as Castigationes plinianae by Ermolao Barbaro or Benedettis Historia corporis humani. By 1521 starting with a course on the De Partibus animalium held in Bologna did the official Renaissance tradition of interpretation on Aristotles zoology take form. The Latin text which contributed to this renewed interest was none other than the elegant translation by Gaza. University Aristotelianism specifically that concerning the zoology was approached by the various interpreters in the context of systematic exploration of the encyclopedic work as a whole. The ample annotations of this volume showcase precisely this type of interaction with the evolving conversation. Gazas work throws light on Renaissance Aristotelianism carried out through the grid of scholastic commentary. Hieronymus Scotus hardcover books
15541506230049Venice: Apud Hieronymum Scotum 1554-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Folio. Original vellum. Minor soiling to cover. Good binding and cover. Later leather binding straps. Later end pages. Printer's device on title page. Text generally clean a few lines of early marginal notation and underlining. Collated: A-L8 M-M6 N-N4 in 8's with the title as leaf A1. Faint stain on first few leaves. Edito princeps 1535. Refs: British Museum p. 44. STC Italy Vol I. p. 99; Not in Brunet. <br><br> Johannes Philoponus John the Grammarian or John of Alexandria was an important Aristotelian commentator and Christian theologian. John's commentaries on Aristotle were influential on medieval and early modern thinkers in Europe such as Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola and Galileo. Philoponus has been seen as an important precursor to the establishment of empirical philosophy. <BR> In this book Philoponus comments on Aristotle's De Anima On the Soul and substantially modifies Aristotle's ideas. His commentary deals specifically with Aristotle's theory of light "Philoponus contends that Aristotle' view fails to account both for the laws of optics. Philoponus modifies the theory so as to save the phenomena he proceeds to re-interpret the term Energeia not as a state of actuality but rather as an 'incorporeal activity' which besides constituting the transparency of the medium is also capable of warming bodies.Due to this novel interpretation of Aristotle's terminology light is now understood not statically but as something dynamical." - Stanford Philosophical Encyclopedia. <BR>It should also be noted that since Michael Hayduck's edition Berlin 1897 it is generally assumed by scholars that the third book of the commentary that had been ascribed to John Philoponus wasoriginally written by Stephanus of Alexandria as is attested in the manuscript Parisinus gr. 1914 11th/12th cent. An important early work in physics and natural philosophy. Venice: Apud Hieronymum Scotum hardcover
15421412010050Venetiis: Brandinus & Octavianus Scotus 1542-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Folio. 2 85p 48p 1. Bound in modern leather. 4 raised bands. Gilt title to second compartment. Printers imprint to final leaf. Fine binding and cover. New FFEP. Marginal dampstain throughout. Otherwise clean unmarked pages. <br><br>John Philoponus also known as John the Grammarian or John of Alexandria was a Christian and Aristotelian commentator and the author of a considerable number of philosophical treatises and theological works. A rigorous sometimes polemical writer and an original thinker who was controversial in his own time John Philoponus broke from the Aristotelian-Neoplatonic tradition questioning methodology and eventually leading to empiricism in the natural sciences. He established his own independent thinking in his commentaries and critiques of Aristotle's On the Soul and Physics. In the latter work Philoponus became one of the earliest thinkers to reject Aristotle's dynamics and propose the 'theory of impetus': i.e. an object moves and continues to move because of an energy imparted in it by the mover and ceases movement when that energy is exhausted an early that was the first step towards the concept of inertia in modern physics. <br>His works were widely printed in Latin translations in Europe from the 15th century onwards. His critique of Aristotle in the Physics commentary was a major influence on Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Galileo Galilei who cited Philoponus substantially in his works often citing him more than Plato. Philoponus' main significance in the history of science lies in his being at the close of antiquity the first thinker to undertake a comprehensive and massive attack on the principal tenets of Aristotle's physics and cosmology an attack unequaled in thoroughness until Galileo. <br><br> LC: Adams P1058 Venetiis: Brandinus & Octavianus Scotus hardcover
159020050Lugduni (pour Genève), Apud Iacobum Bubonium [et] Apud Guillelmun Leamarium, 1590. Deux tomes en un volume in-folio de [20]-751 (chiffrées 1-430; 435-755) -[1] et [4]-595-[65] pages, plein vélin sur ai de bois, dos muet à 5 nerfs, plats bordés de plusieurs roulettes dont une large aux entrelacs végétaux, et deux autres aux portraits de figures historiques, motif central du plat supérieur aux armes du Saint Empire romain germanique et au plat inférieur celles du grand électeur de Saxe, fermoirs en laiton.
1531133411Parisiis: Petri Vidouei 1531. Rare 16th century French printing of Aristotle's third book of logic. Folio bound in full vellum elaborate woodcut vignette-border title-page illustrated with numerous in-text woodcut diagrams and woodcut initials. Ownership inscriptions including that of American philosopher Allan Gotthelf. Gotthelf received many honors for his work on Aristotle including in 2004 an international conference on "Aristotle on Being Nature and Life" held "in celebration of his contributions to the study of classical philosophy and science." In very good condition with some dampstaining and period marginalia throughout. Being one of the six extant Aristotelian writings on logic and scientific method The Prior Analytics was first composed around 350 BCE. The work represents the first formal study of logic where logic is understood as the study of arguments. In the Prior Analytics Aristotle identifies valid and invalid forms of arguments called syllogisms. A syllogism is an argument that consists of at least three sentences: at least two premises and a conclusion. Although Aristotle does not call them "categorical sentences" tradition does; he deals with them briefly in the Analytics and more extensively in On Interpretation. In the sixth century Boethius composed the first known Latin translation of the Prior Analytics. No Westerner between Boethius and Bernard of Utrecht is known to have read it. Petri Vidouei hardcover
1503D20057Venice: Octaviani Scoti per Bonetus de Locatellis 1503. Hardcover. Very Good. Small folio printed in gothic type in two columns woodcut initials & text diagrams; woodcut printer's device on final leaf. Bound in modern half parchment with printed paper boards. A copy with significant contemporary marginal notes in several sections the annotations run tight up against the outer margin. Title page cut down by one inch at the foot; some scattered spotting & worming but generally a nice copy of an early and uncommon to the market post-incunable edition worthy of future study. A recent edition was published in 2024 by the Aquinas Institute. Beth Mortensen summarizes the significance of the text: "All of us living in this Cartesian age grow accustomed to thinking of our bodies as animated machinesmachines that function better or worse subject to innumerable material factors. De Anima On the Soul reminds us that the human person is one whole and the soul is actively making the body what it is. This means that among other things the quality of the bodys functioning does not determine a human beings 'quality of life' and it is completely irrelevant to that persons worth or dignity." see: aquinas institute - commentary on de anima. <br/><br/> Octaviani Scoti per Bonetus de Locatellis hardcover
1549047<b>FIRST EDITION of this translation the FIRST ITALIAN TRANSLATION OF THE POETICS a little minor spotting in places tiny worm track to blank area of first two leaves early ownership inscription Jacobi Peruli Vabmatis' to title page pp. xii 355 25 4to eighteenth-century Italian vellum spine lettered in ink all edges blue a few tiny wormholes to backstrip a very good copy house in a maroon clamshell case with a black morocco label. A nice clean copy of the first edition of this translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric and poetics into Italian by Bernardo Segni 1504-1558 the first translation of the Poetics and the second of the Rhetoric to be printed. there was enough demand that a second edition was printed two years later.</b> Appresso Lorenzo Torrentino hardcover
15265283(Am Ende): Venedig, de Sabio, 1526. 4 nn. Bll., 107 num. Bll. mit wdh. Druckermarke in Holzschnitt. Gr.-4°. HPgmt des 17. Jahrhunderts mit hs. Rückentitel (etw. bestoßen und fleckig).
1525133419Venetiis: Octaviani Scoticiuis 1525. Rare early 16th century Venetian printing of Aristotle's pioneering work on zoology which had a powerful influence on zoology for over two thousand years. Folio bound in full vellum illustrated with woodcut initials. In very good condition. Deaccessioned from the Harvard College Library with their stamps and bookplate. Written in the fourth century B.C.E. Aristotle's History of Animals had a powerful influence on zoology for some two thousand years. Generally seen as a pioneering work of zoology Aristotle frames his text by explaining that he is investigating the what the existing facts about animals prior to establishing the why the causes of these characteristics. The book is thus an attempt to apply philosophy to part of the natural world. Throughout the work Aristotle seeks to identify differences both between individuals and between groups. The work contains many accurate eye-witness observations in particular of the marine biology around the island of Lesbos such as that the octopus had color-changing abilities and a sperm-transferring tentacle that the young of a dogfish grow inside their mother's body and that the male river catfish guards the eggs after the female has left. Some of these were long considered fanciful before being rediscovered in the nineteenth century. It continued to be a primary source of knowledge until in the sixteenth century zoologists including Conrad Gessner all influenced by Aristotle wrote their own studies of the subject. Octaviani Scoticiuis hardcover
154632121546 Lugduni apud Seb. Gryphium, 1545-1546. 6 textes d'Artistote, tous éd. à Lyon par Sebastien Gryphius, reliés en 1 vol. in-8: 11 x 18 cm. Physicorum (trad. Byzantio), 1546, 214 pp.; De Coelo (trad. Byzantio) 1545, 115 pp.; De Generatione (trad. Vatablo), 1546, 67 pp.; Meteorologicorum (trad. Vatablo), 1546, 136 pp.; De Anima (trad. Byzantio), 1546, 90 pp.; Stagiritae (trad. Vatablo), 1546, 108 pp. Avec plusieurs vignettes de l'imprimeur représentant un gryphon; nombreuses lettrines initiales sur bois; quelques scolies manuscrites en marge du texte. Reliure moderne en parchemin. Dos à troix nerfs avec titre et date manuscits à l'encre noir. Bibli.: Baudrier, Biblio. lyonaise, VIII / Gültlingen, Biblio. imprimé à Lyon, V.
158450934Morgiis, Guillelmus Laimarius, 1584. Small folio. 18th century half vellum, somewhat soiled and worn. Corners and edges bumped and worn. Handwritten title to spine. Fore-edge with 2-line title in neat (contemporary?) hand and with the ""Societas Jesu"" (i.e. the Jesuit Society) symbol in white to the otherwise red fore-edge. Internally a very ni8ce copy, with the occasional browning and spotting. A faint damp stain to top marging of some leaves. A small hole to top of title-page, far from affecting print. Last leaves with neat strenthening of blank upper corners, far from affecting text. Old (presumably 18th century) owner's name to title page: ""Ioan. Bey A. Vest."" Front free end-papers heavily annotated (presumably by this same owner, in Latin, Greek, and German. The annotations include and elaborate handwritten index, information about the edition, and references to the Greek sentences. Verso of last leaf and back end-papers also with notes. A few underlinings here and there. Woodcut ornamental title-border, woodcut vignettes, woodcut initials, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text. Greek-Latin parallel-text. (8), 831, (1) pp.
158450934Morgiis Guillelmus Laimarius 1584. Small folio. 18th century half vellum somewhat soiled and worn. Corners and edges bumped and worn. Handwritten title to spine. Fore-edge with 2-line title in neat contemporary hand and with the "Societas Jesu" i.e. the Jesuit Society symbol in white to the otherwise red fore-edge. Internally a very ni8ce copy with the occasional browning and spotting. A faint damp stain to top marging of some leaves. A small hole to top of title-page far from affecting print. Last leaves with neat strenthening of blank upper corners far from affecting text. Old presumably 18th century owner's name to title page: "Ioan. Bey A. Vest." Front free end-papers heavily annotated presumably by this same owner in Latin Greek and German. The annotations include and elaborate handwritten index information about the edition and references to the Greek sentences. Verso of last leaf and back end-papers also with notes. A few underlinings here and there. Woodcut ornamental title-border woodcut vignettes woodcut initials numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text. Greek-Latin parallel-text. 8 831 1 pp. <br/><br/><em>The very rare first edition of Julius Pace's seminal "Organon"-edition which was the standard-edition of the logical texts of Aristotle throughout more than a century running through at least 11 editions before 1624. Pace's version of the text in Greek-Latin parallels and with Pace's inspired commentaries and interpretations profoundly influenced Renaissance thought determining the course of the Organon-interpretation throughout this period and inspiring much original philosophical thought. Pace's interpretation of Aristotle's logical works - arguably the most influential collection of works in the history of Western thought - not only changed the face of Renaissance thought it has remained the authoritative reading of Aristotle's "Organon" to this day and is still considered the most important and authoritative reading of the texts. As Ross puts it in the Preface to his translation of the logical works the standard Oxford-edition: "My chief authority in matters of interpretation has been Pacius". "The Works of Aristotle Translated into English Under the Editorship of W.D. Ross. Volume I". Oxford University Press. To this day a proper study of Aristotle's "Organon" - and Porphyrios' "Isagoge" - is still unthinkable without references to Pace his rendering of the text and his interpretations of it. The famous "Porphyrian Tree" or "arbor porphyriana" which has gone down in history as a standard presentation of the basis of Aristotle's thought was presented by Porphyrios in his "Isagoge" which since Antiquity has accompanied Aristotle's "Ornanon" as an introduction thereof. The standard presentation of this tree is that of Pace in the present edition on p. 9. It is that rendering of it with occasional slight alterations which has remained standard ever since 1584. That which we ever since Antiquity have called the "Organon" comprises the logical works of Aristotle: 1. Categories 2. On Interpretation 3. Prior Analytics 4. Posterior Analytics 5. Topics 6. On Sophistical Refutations - which ever since late Antiquity/early Middle Ages have been accompanied by Porphyrios' 233/34-ca.310 "Isagoge" his introduction to Aristotle's "Categories". During the Renaissance all editions of Aristotle's "Organon" also comprised Porphyrios' "Isagoge" which was seen as necessary for the understanding of Aristotle's logic. Aristotle's logic has played a seminal role in the history of Western thought. No other collection of writings has had an impact on the history of philosophy that comes close to the "Organon" an impact that remains pivotal to this day. "Aristotle's logic especially his theory of the syllogism has had an unparalleled influence on the history of Western thought." SEP.From Antiquity the earlier middle ages had inherited Boethius' translation of the two first treatises of Aristotle's "Organon" along with Porphyrios' "Isagoge". These works formed the basis for logical study and teaching until the end of the 11th century. Only during the 12th and 13th centuries were Aristotle's writings - along with those of the Arabic and some of the Greek commentators - translated into Latin. When the medieval universities reached their full development during the thirteenth century Aristotle's works were adapted as the standard textbooks for all philosophical disciplines - thus modern terms for many philosophical and scientific disciplines correspond to the titles of Aristotle's works e.g. Ethics Physics Metaphysics. Through Aristotle's works the West thus acquired not only the specific problems and ideas that were being dealt with at the universities but also the terminology used to describe and discuss them and the systematic framework within which all relevant problems should and could be treated. But come the Renaissance we see a clear change in the use of Aristotle's works. We here witness something other than a mere continuation of the late medieval Aristotelianism. The Humanists began supplying new translations of Aristotle's works and translated all the Greek commentators of Aristotle many of them for the first time. And thus a tendency to emphasize the original Greek Aristotle developed a tendency that became pivotal for the development of modern thought - the development of modern science and modern philosophy is inextricably linked with the Renaissance Humanist editions of Aristotle's works in Greek with Latin parallel-text. The "Organon" Aristotle's seminal logical writings occupies a central position within the Aristotelian body of writing and thus within the development of Western thought. Certain Humanist versions of the Greek text and the Latin translations as well as the interpretations of them thus came to play a seminal role in the trajectory of Renaissance and modern though Pace's "Organon"-edition presumably being THE most important and influential edition ever to have appeared. "The medieval traditions of logical writing survived well into the sixteenth century particularly at Paris and at the Spanish universities though with considerable internal changes. Treatises on sophisms and on proofs of terms ceased to be written; whereas there was a sudden flurry of activity concerned with the various divisions of terms and with the opposition of propositions i.e. the logical relations between different kinds of categorical proposition. These internal changes were not however sufficient to keep the tradition alive and after about 1530 not only did new writing on the specifically medieval contributions to logic cease but the publication of medieval logicians virtually ceased. The main exceptions were the logical commentaries by or attributed to such authors as Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus which found a place in their "Opera Omnia" and which benefited from a revived interest in the great medieval metaphysicians.The main changes in the teaching and writing of logic during the sixteenth century were due to the impact of humanism. First commentaries on Aristotle came to display a totally new style of writing. One reason for this was the influence of new translations of Aristotle and new attitudes to the Greek text. Another reason was the publication of the Greek commentators on Aristotle's logic Alexander Themistius Ammonius Philoponus and Simplicius. A third reason was the new emphasis on Averroes which expressed itself in the great Aristotle-Averroes edition of 1550-1552. The effects of these new factors can be seen in the commentaries on individual works of the "Organon" by such Italians as Agostino Nifo 1473-1546 and Jacopo Zabarella 1533-1589 the latter of whom offered a particularly influential account of scientific method. They can also be seen in the "Organon" edition of Giulio Pace 1550-1635 which was first published in 1584 and contained the Greek text side-by-side with a new translation which was designed not only to read well but also to capture the philosophical significance of Aristotle's words." Raul Corazzon "History of Renaissance and Modern Logic from 1400 to Stuart Mill"."No editor better understood the nature of this Treatise of Aristotle than Julius Pacius who was the preceptor of Casaubon and profoundedly skilled in all the arcane of the Peripatetic philosophy in both the Greek and Latin tongues." Dibdin I: 318Giulio Pace of Beriga or Julius Pace/Pacius 1550 - 1635 was a famous Italian Aristotelian scholar and jurist. He was born in Vicenza and studied law and philosophy in Padua. He was inspired by the Reformation and put on trial by the Inquisition. Therefore he had to flee Italy and escaped first to Geneva thereafter to Germany. While in Heidelberg he converted to Protestantism. He was highly respected as an academic and was widely known for his deep knowledge and understanding of Aristotle whom he became famous for translating. He was elected public professor in Geneva where he taught for ten years 1575-1585. The next ten years he spent teaching law at the University of Heidelberg where he got into different conflicts especially with the philosophical faculty for giving private tuition in the controversial Ramist logic. After Heidelberg he taught at different universities throughout Europe where he was especially well known for his 1584-edition of Aristotle's "Organon" which played a definitive role in Aristotle-scholarship and philosophy in general throughout all of Europe.Dibdin I:318; Adams A:1866. </em> hardcover
150565845Venetiis: 1505-1507. later old quarter vellum over marbled baords. Some old ink annotations and a neat repair to one corner of the first leaf; neat old marginal annotations in Latin to the Aristotle. Some inoffensive scattered marginal stains; contents very attractive. 4to. hardcover
1554180648Venice: Comin da Trino 1554. Aristotleianism astrology and the development of Italian scientific prose First edition in Italian at the time the most complete translation of Aristotle's Meteorology in the vernacular together with extended commentary from two prominent medieval philosophers. This edition furthers the adaptation of Aristotle by medieval thinkers to support a range of contemporary interests most notably astrology. From its Latin translation in the 12th century until well into the 17th the Meteorology was "the unquestioned authority on weather theory" Frisinger p. 638. By 1554 Renaissance astrologers had long looked to it to support their conviction that the stars influence events on earth. Albertus Magnus c.1200-1280 among the most prominent medieval Aristotelians was one of the first to propose this astrological interpretation which characterizes the present edition. Following the great wave of scholarly Latin translations vernacular manuscripts of Aristotle's works began appearing from the 13th century onwards often commissioned by rising mercantile families. This edition is based on an anonymous translation made in 14th-century Florence. It pairs a revised and condensed version of the Meteorology with sections drawn from the commentaries of Albertus and to a lesser extent Thomas Aquinas. In several cases the editor has used their translation to bring Aristotle's text in line with Albertus's interpretation blurring the line between astronomy and astrology. Octavo 150 x 101 mm ff. iv 92. Woodcut printer's device to title page headpiece and historiated initial. Contemporary vellum spine lettered in manuscript ink remnants of morocco ties edges sprinkled red. Contemporary ink annotations between pp. 36-58 primarily focusing on explanations for atmospheric phenomena. Light rubbing and soiling infrequent minor browning and foxing: a very good copy. EDIT16 CNCE 2945; USTC 810943. H. Howard Frisinger "Aristotle and his 'Meteorologica'" Bulletin American Meteorological Society vol. 53 no. 7 July 1972; J. D. North "La 'Metaura' d'Aristotile: Volgarizzamento fiorentino anonimo del XIV secolo. Aristotle Rita Librandi" Speculum-A journal of medieval studies vol. 73 no. 2 1998. hardcover
1501300661501. Problemata Alexandri Aphrodisei. Problemata Plutarchi cum gratia. - Venetiis Per Bonetum Locatellum 1501 Folio 304 x 210 mm 22 296 fl. double colum gothic letters woodcut initials printer device fine full leather binding. A broad marginated clean and well preserved copy of this beautifully volume printed on strong paper. The greatest scientific name after Hippocrates is that of Aristotle 384-322 B.C. who gave the medicine the beginnings of botany zoology comparative anatomy embryology teratology and physiology and use of formal logic as an instrument of precision. Aristotle a pupil of Plato and at one time tutor to Alexander the Great had a profound influence in determining the direction of medical and biological thought; perhaps no other man has so dominated and advanced science as a whole.The Aristotelian Problemata enjoyed considerable popularity in the Middle Ages especially its book IV dealing with sexual intercourse and generation which adapted in such manner that it became a kind of pornographic publication. Petrus de Abano 1250-1315 was one of the most illustrious and influential men of his time and probably the most influential medical writer of the later middle age. A native of Apano near Padua from which he takes his name he took his degree in Paris and his cures were so remarkable that he was able to obtain the highest fees of any physicians of his time. He was called the Consiliator because of his remarkable book published during his residence in the Paris University. He was consulted by such man as Pope Honorius IV and was in great demand for lectures consultation and teaching. Dante was among his pupils. Abano believed that air has weight that brain is the source of the nervous system and the heart the source of the blood vessels- novel ideas that were not validated for centuries. He was the first to acquaint the West with the Problemata from Aritotle`s school to which he wrote the present commentary. For his heretical and outspoken views he was several times accused of heresy. Later he was suspected of magic and persecuted on that account during the Inquisition. Dying before his trial his body was taken out and burned in the public square. The medical science of the scholastic was a part of the universitas litterarum the scholastic physicians were philosophers. The methods of thought had been prescribed by Aristotle and the learned man of Arab. "Petrus spent some time in Constantinople probably before 1293; during his stay found a copy of the Problems of Aristotle.he translated them into Latin for the first time. He began a commentary on these problems while in Paris and completed it at Padua in 1310.His experience and activity represents a landmark in the history of scientific humanism." -Sarton III 439 "Prefatory note by Domenico Massaria. The translatio antiqua of Aristotle is that by Bartholomaeus de Messina which usually accompanies the commentary by Pietro d'Abano; not the ancient Latin version beginning Omnes hominess.- The Problemata of Alexander of Aphrodisias is in the translation of Giorgio Valla; the Problemata Quaestiones convivales of Plutarch in that by Giovanni Petri edited by Giovanni Calfurnio." -Durling NLM no. 286 p. 36; Thorndike II 874-947 921; Sarton III/1 pp.439-446; Sigerist Great doctors 75-79; Gordon Medial & Renaissance Medicine pp. 333-337; Brit. Museum Ital. Books Aristotle p.55. This edition not in Osler Wellcome Cushing Waller Adams etc. RILEY Aristotle texts and commentaries in the Univ. of Pennsylvania Library 1961 has only an edition of 1505 no. 209 hardcover
1514104082Venice: Gregorium de Gregorijs 1514. Rare 16th century printing of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics; bound together with Spanish Franciscan theologian Antonius Andreas's best known work Quaestiones super XII libros Metaphysicae Aristotelis. Quarto bound in contemporary parchment over handmade paper-covered boards woodcut initials text in two columns. In very good condition. A rare and desirable collection. The Posterior Analytics is a text from Aristotle's Organon that examines demonstration definition and scientific knowledge. In the work Aristotle distinguishes 'demonstration' as a syllogism productive of scientific knowledge and 'definition' as the statement of a thing's nature: the meaning of its name or of an equivalent nominal formula. In the Prior Analytics syllogistic logic is considered in its formal aspect; in the Posterior it is considered in respect of its matter. The "form" of a syllogism lies in the necessary connection between the premises and the conclusion. Aristotle concludes the book with the way the human mind comes to know the basic truths or first principles which are not innate because people may be ignorant of them for much of their lives. Of all types of thinking scientific knowing and intuition are considered as only universally true where the latter is the originative source of scientific knowledge. Gregorium de Gregorijs hardcover
1514104082Venice: Gregorium de Gregorijs 1514. Rare 16th century printing of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics; bound together with Spanish Franciscan theologian Antonius Andreas's best known work Quaestiones super XII libros Metaphysicae Aristotelis. Quarto bound in contemporary parchment over handmade paper-covered boards woodcut initials text in two columns. In very good condition. A rare and desirable collection. The Posterior Analytics is a text from Aristotle's Organon that examines demonstration definition and scientific knowledge. In the work Aristotle distinguishes 'demonstration' as a syllogism productive of scientific knowledge and 'definition' as the statement of a thing's nature: the meaning of its name or of an equivalent nominal formula. In the Prior Analytics syllogistic logic is considered in its formal aspect; in the Posterior it is considered in respect of its matter. The "form" of a syllogism lies in the necessary connection between the premises and the conclusion. Aristotle concludes the book with the way the human mind comes to know the basic truths or first principles which are not innate because people may be ignorant of them for much of their lives. Of all types of thinking scientific knowing and intuition are considered as only universally true where the latter is the originative source of scientific knowledge. Gregorium de Gregorijs hardcover books