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Ogilby, John; NIEUHOFF, Jan or John or Johann; de Goyer, Peter; de Keyzer, Jacob; Adams, John; Kircher, Athanasius;Biblio.com

AN // EMBASSY // FROM THE // East-India Company // OF THE // UNITED PROVINCES // TO THE // Grand Tartar Cham // EMPEROUR OF // CHINA // Delivered by their Excellencies // PETER DE GOYER and JACOB DE KEYZER // At his Imperial City of // PEKING. // WHEREIN // THE CITIES TOWNS VILLAGES PORTS RIVERS etc. // In their Passages from CANTON to PEKING // Are Ingeniously Described by MR. JOHN NIEVHOFF Steward to the // AMBASSADOURS. // ALSO// An Epistle of Father JOHN ADAMS their Antagonist concerning the whole// Negotiation. // WITH //An Appendix of several Remarks taken out of Father ATHANASIUS KIRCHER. //Englished and set forth with their several Sculptures by JOHN OGILEY Esq; Master of // his Majesties Revels in the Kingdom of Ireland. // LONDON // Printed by John Macock for the Author MDCLXIX.

1669B6290London: Printed by John Macock for the Author Ogilby. c.1669. A fine attractive and handsome copy with text and plates clean and crisp. Edition: First or 1669 Edition in English. Binding: Contemporary mottled full calf rebacked expertly saving the original spine spine with seven raised gilt bands; compartments densely gilt ornamentated; with gilt lettered title on brown morocco label on two and three. Blind dentelle pattern tooled on edges of covers; pasted and free endpapers marbled. Notes: John or Johann Nieuhof 1618 – 1672 is best known for the account of his journey from "Guangzhou"Canton to Peking in 1655-1657 which enabled him to become an authoritative Western writer on China. The book was first published in Dutch in 1665 by Johan's brother Hendrik and the Amsterdam based publisher and printer Jacob van Meurs. The publication was successful several edited editions followed geared towards commercial interests also translated into French German Latin and eventually into English. The English version was not published by Van Meurs but by John Ogilby instead. The book consists of the notes and illustrations that Nieuhof made in his position as a steward on Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keizer's embassy to the emperor of China. The work itself is split into two parts. The first part contains the written account of the embassy led by Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keizer to the emperor of China. It details the entire journey from "Guangzhou"Canton to Peking and back again. This part also contains descriptions and depictions of all that the embassy came to pass on its trip. The second part consists of an overview of China describing bridges mountains temples customs and costumes supported by illustrations. Prior to this period the image of the Chinese in Europe was dominated by fantasy illustrations. Many subsequent artists and architects based their work on Nieuhof's pictures. The present copy John Ogilby’s translation and the first Edition in English. Apart from 'An embassy from the East-India Company…’ Nieuhoff’s account of his journey it also includes ‘A Narrative of the Success of an Embassage sent by John Maatzuyker's de Badem General of Batavia…’ and Kircher’s ‘An Appendix or Special Remarks taken at large out of Athanasius Kircher/ His / Antiquities of China.’ Size: Folio 418 x 270mm. Illustration: engraved frontispiece portrait of John Ogilby by Lilly and engraved by Lombart; engraved illustrated title signed and dated by ‘W.enceslas Hollar 1668.’; printed title in red and black ink; map of China signed by Hollar double page dedication leaf to King Charles; with 17 full-page and 2 double-page plates. 121 in-text illustrations throughout as well as head-piece vignettes and rubricated historiated initials at openings of dedication and sections; one endpiece. Wide margined large paper copy; main text jumps from 184 to 205 without loss of content. References: Cordier Sinica II 2347; Lust 536; Wing N1153 Transation: John Ogilby’s Englis Pages: PP. illustrated title blank printed title blank map; dedication leaf to King Charles; 327 bl.; 1-18; appendix 1-106 19 ill. Category: Book Voyages General; Book Asia Far East Printed by John Macock for the Author [Ogilby],. unknown

Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books · Canada19 000,00 $US≈ 16 075,90 €

A Well Wisher to the Good Old Cause [ BROWN, John (1610-1679), Minister of the Gospel at Wamphray [ or 'John Broun of Wamfrey',Biblio.com

An Apologeticall Relation of the particular sufferings of the Faithfull Ministers. By John Brown; Minister of the Gospel at Wamphray or 'John Broun of Wamfrey'. PRINTED IN THE YEERE : 1665.

1665053762No Place Given: Printed in the Yeere 1665 1665. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Small Octavo. JULY SALE 40% OFF! FIRST EDITION No place of printing given; assumed to be in Holland : 1665. Hardback. Nineteenth century full calf-leather; simple blind-tooled panels to covers. All edges red. Board-edges decorated in gilt. Later re-spine in matching calf. Gilt-letter dark-green leather-label. Dated 1665 to spine foot; simple blind-tooled. No owner name or internal markings. The author's name and place of publication written to title-page in small neat contemporary hand. Tight bright and clean. Text complete. Minor wear only. VERY GOOD INDEED. xxxii 424 vii pages. VERY SCARCE. Referenced by: Wing B5026. This book was deemed to be dangerous and was banned by proclamation of the Privy Council of Scotland in 1666 which also ordered that a copy be publicly burnt on the high Street of Edinburgh near to the Mercat-Cross by the hand of the Hang-man and was re-banned again in August 1688. JOHN BROWN OF WAMPHRAY was a Church of Scotland theologian who served as the minister of the parish of Wamphray in Annandale during the mid-17th century. He removed to Wamphray to begin serving the parish at an unknown date estimates vary from 1637 until 1655 and remained in residence until 1662 when he was imprisoned and later exiled to the Netherlands for his public opposition to the royal imposition of bishops on the Church. Sm.8vo. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books CHS Cumberland Everyman GKC Inklings Keswick Literature MacDonald Rarities Theology and History. . FULL-TITLE: An Apologeticall relation of the particular sufferings of the faithfull ministers & professours of the Church of Scotland since August 1660. PRINTED IN THE YEERE 1665. Printed in the Yeere 1665 hardcover

Rosley Books · Royaume-Uni1 380,00 £GB≈ 1 575,68 €

Twysden or Twisden Roger 1597 1672ABAA

AN HISTORICAL VINDICATION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN POINT OF SCHISM AS IT STANDS SEPARATED FROM THE ROMAN AND WAS REFORMED I. ELIZABETH

1675WRCLIT67247London: Printed for Robert Pawlet . 1675. 81982pp. Quarto. Extracted from binding. Title in red and black Royal Coat of Arms on title slight tanning and faint foxing R2-3 with clean tears in from foremargin no loss otherwise a very good copy. Third edition of one of Twysden's most widely read antiquarian works first published in 1657. It is a "detailed account of the increase of papal powers over England from the Saxons to the Reformation . arguing . that it was the Church of England rather than Rome which had held fast to the true faith. Twysden denied that the English church 'made a departure from the Church which is the ground and pillar of truth' p. 196. This temperate and urbane argument placed Twysden within the tradition of earlier apologists for the Church of England such as Richard Hooker and Thomas Fuller" - DNB. ESTC R15191. WING T3554. McALPIN III:717. Printed for Robert Pawlet ... unknown books

William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB · États-Unis250,00 $US≈ 211,52 €

Theology. Mall Thomas b. 1629 or 1630ABAA

An OFFER Of FARTHER HELP To SUFFERING SAINTS: or The Best Work in the Worst Times. Wherein the necessity excellency and means of preparation for Sufferings are clearly evinced and prescribed. in which as in a Glass the people of God may see how to dress themselves for Death or any other suffering to which the Lord shall call. Added as an Appendix to the Sufferers Mirrour

166527468London: Printed for the Authour and are to be sold by Robert Butler 1665. 1st edition Wing M-334A. Recent dark-brown full speckled calf binding executed in a period style with gilt spine lettering. Binding - Fine. Text block - VG usual browning to paper/top edge occasionally closely trimmed infrequently affecting running title/faint prior owner blindstamp to preliminary blank. 10 132 pp. T.p. printed in red & black. Headpiece. Decorative initial capital letter to p. 1. 8vo: A - I8. 6-5/8" x 4-1/4" Fairly scarce work by this divine author attribution from Wing- OCLC lists only microform copies & none at auction these last 30 years. . Printed for the Authour, and are to be sold by Robert Butler unknown books

Tavistock Books, ABAA · États-Unis850,00 $US≈ 719,19 €

[L'HOPITAL (or L'HOSPITAL), Guillaume Francois Antoine, Marquis de]Biblio.com

Analyse des infiniment petits pour l'intelligence des lignes courbes. Bound with : CARRÉ Louis. Methode pour la mesure des surfaces la dimension des solides leurs centres de pesanteur de percussion et d'oscillation par l'application du calcul intégral

17002848Paris: L'imprimerie Royale; Jean Boudot 1700. First edition. First editions. L'Hôpital's treatise on differential calculus was based on lessons he received from Johann Bernoulli and it was under the influence of Malebranche that some years later appeared the first work on the integral calculus by Louis Carré. Hardcover. THE FIRST BOOKS ON DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS. A fine sammelband comprising the first editions of the first books on the differential and integral calculus respectively. "In France it was through the Oratorian circle of Nicolas Malebranche that Johann Bernoulli introduced in 1691 the Leibnizian calculus. His lessons to the Marquis de l'Hôpital led to the draft of the first treatise of differential calculus 1696 and it was under the influence of Malebranche that some years later appeared the first works on the integral calculus by Louis Carré in 1700 and Charles René Reyneau in 1708. The spread and acceptance of the Leibnizian calculus was transferred in this way to the wide public" Landmark Writings p. 56. "The importance of L'Hospital's work lay in its dissemination throughout Europe of the concepts and early development of the calculus whose cause L'Hospital advanced as well through his many contacts; these included Christiaan Huygens who is reputed to have learned the calculus from L'Hospital" DSB. Bernoulli's lectures also covered integral calculus but L'Hospital dropped plans to write a continuation to his Analyse des infiniment petits dealing with this subject "in deference to Leibniz who had let him know that he had similar intentions" ibid. Leibniz never wrote such a text however and Bernoulli's lectures on integral calculus remained unpublished until they appeared in his Opera 1742. The task of completing L'Hospital's book was instead taken up by Carré a pupil of Malebranche and assistant to Pierre Varignon from whom he probably learnt calculus. "Following the classical custom his Analyse des infiniment petits starts with a set of definitions and axioms . The difference differential is defined as the infinitely small portion by which a variable quantity increases or decreases continuously. Of the two axioms the first postulates that quantities which differ only by infinitely small amounts may be substituted for one another while the second states that a curve may be thought of as a polygonal line with an infinite number of infinitely small sides such that the angle between adjacent lines determines the curvature of the curve. Following the axioms the basic rules of the differential calculus are given and exemplified. The second chapter applies these rules to the determination of the tangent to a curve in a given point . The third chapter deals with maximum-minimum problems and includes examples drawn from mechanics and geography. Next comes a treatment of points of inflection and cusps. This involves the introduction of higher-order differentials each supposed infinitely small compared to its predecessor. Later chapters deal with evolutes and with caustics. L'Hospital's rule is given in chapter 9" ibid. The tenth and final chapter of the Analyse discusses the methods of Descartes and Johann Hudde. The companion work by Carré is "the first treatise on the integral calculus in any language which is here applied to the determination of the area of superficies surfaces and solids and their centres of gravity problems of percussion oscillation etc." Sotheran. On this last topic the determination of the centres of oscillation of solids Carré made a significant error. This was known to Bernoulli but not publicized at the time and so was propagated into several later calculus texts such as Charles Hayes' Treatise on Fluxions 1704 and Edmund Stone's The Method of Fluxions both Direct and Inverse 1730. Both works are rare on the market: ABPC/RBH list four copies of L'Hospital's book since the Norman copy which realised $6325 in 1998; and only two copies of Carré's work in the last half century. "Differential and integral calculus are generally considered to have their origins in the works of Newton and Leibniz in the late 17th century although the roots of the subject reach far back into that century and arguably even into antiquity. Leibniz first described his new calculus in a cryptic article more than a decade before the publication of the Analyse. For all practical purposes Leibniz' early papers were not understood until Jakob Bernoulli and his younger brother Johann began studying them in about 1687 and making discoveries of their own using his techniques. "Bernard de Fontenelle became the secretary of the Académie des Sciences in Paris in 1697 and wrote the eulogy of l'Hôpital for the academy's journal. He said that in 1696 'the Geometry of the Infinitely small was still nothing but a kind of Mystery and so to speak a Cabalistic Science shared among five or six people. They often gave their Solutions in the Journals without revealing the Method that produced them and even when one could discover it it was only a few feeble rays of this Science that had escaped and the clouds immediately closed again.' Later on Montucla went one step further and listed the only people that he believed understood Leibniz' calculus before 1696: Leibniz himself Jakob and Johann Bernoulli Pierre Varignon and l'Hôpital. L'Hôpital's Analyse changed all of this and for much of the 18th century his book served aspiring French mathematicians as their first introduction to the new calculus. "For all that the Analyse was a popular and successful introduction to the differential calculus it's remarkable that there is no account of the integral calculus in the book. In his Preface l'Hôpital explained why: 'In all of this there is only the first part of Mr. Leibniz' calculus . The other part which we call integral calculus consists in going back from these infinitely small quantities to the magnitudes or the wholes of which they are the differences that is to say in finding their sums. I had also intended to present this. However Mr. Leibniz having written me that he is working on a Treatise titled De Scientiâ infiniti I took care not to deprive the public of such a beautiful Work' p. iii. Unfortunately Leibniz never completed this book On the Science of the Infinite. "The Analyse consists of ten chapters which l'Hôpital called 'sections.' We consider it to have three parts. The first part an introduction to the differential calculus consists of the first four chapters: In which we give the Rules of this calculus. Use of the differential calculus for finding the Tangents of all kinds of curved lines. Use of the differential calculus for finding the greatest and the least ordinates to which are reduced questions De maximis & minimis. Use of the differential calculus for finding inflection points and cusps. "Taken together these chapters provide a thorough introduction to the differential calculus in about 70 pages. The next five chapters are devoted to what can only be described as an advanced text on differential geometry motivated in part by what were then cutting-edge research problems in optics and other fields" Bradley et al. pp. v-vi. These subsequent chapters no longer mirror the structure of Bernoulli's lectures. Chapter 5 the longest in the Analyse deals with evolutes and involutes including the cycloid and various spirals. Chapters 6-8 are on envelopes of lines and curves i.e. curves that are tangent to every member of a family of lines or curves - this includes the study of caustics in geometrical optics. Chapter 9 contains "the solution of various problems that depend upon the previous Methods;" the first of these is the celebrated rule that we now call L'Hôpital's Rule which was first discovered by Bernoulli. In his final chapter of the Analyse l'Hôpital demonstrates how all of the methods of Descartes and Hudde may be easily derived and justified using Leibniz's differential calculus. Born into a noble family L'Hospital 1661-1704 abandoned a military career due to poor eyesight to pursue his interest in mathematics. "Some time around 1690 L'Hôpital joined Nicolas Malebranche's circle which was engaged among other things in the study of higher mathematics. It was there in November 1691 that he met the 24-year-old Johann Bernoulli who was visiting Paris and had been invited by Malebranche to present his construction of the catenary at the salon . Bernoulli told Pierre Rémond de Montmort that upon meeting the Marquis he soon found him to be a good enough mathematician with regard to ordinary mathematics but that he knew nothing of the differential calculus other than its name and had not even heard of the integral calculus. L'Hôpital had apparently mastered Fermat's method of finding maxima and minima and told Bernoulli that he had used it to invent a rule for determining the radius of curvature for arbitrary curves. The method was unwieldy and actually could only be used at local extrema of algebraic curves. Bernoulli showed him the formula for the radius of curvature that he had developed with his brother Jakob which employed second-order differentials. Apparently this so impressed the Marquis that he visited Bernoulli the very next day and engaged him as his tutor in the differential and integral calculus. "Bernoulli tutored the Marquis in his Paris apartment four times a week from late 1691 through the end of July 1692 . In the summer of 1692 Bernoulli accompanied the Marquis to his estate in Oucques near the French city of Blois where he continued giving him tutorials until some time in October . Bernoulli kept copies of his lessons to the Marquis throughout his long and productive career. The first part on the differential calculus was incorporated by l'Hôpital into the first four chapters of the Analyse. Bernoulli himself published the much larger second part concerning the integral calculus in his collected works. Titled Lectiones mathematicae de methodo integralium this treatise bears the subtitle 'written for the use of the Illustrious Marquis de l'Hôpital while the author spent time in Paris in the years 1691 & 1692' . Because Bernoulli chose not to publish this part it was impossible in the 18th century to say how closely l'Hôpital's textbook coincided with Bernoulli's lessons. A comparison finally became possible when Paul Schafheitlin discovered a manuscript copy of the full set of lessons on both the differential and integral calculus in the library of the University of Basel in 1921 . Because the latter part was a near-perfect match to what Bernoulli had published in 1741 he could be quite certain that the first part was essentially the same set of lessons l'Hôpital had used when composing the Analyse . "Since the appearance of the Lectiones various authors have characterized the Analyse as having essentially been written by Bernoulli. Indeed Bernoulli himself in an angry letter to Varignon of February 26 1707 said that 'to speak frankly Mr. de l'Hôpital had no other part in the production of this book than to have translated into French the material that I gave him for the most part in Latin.' The truth is much more nuanced. The superstructure of l'Hôpital's first four chapters is certainly due to Bernoulli and many of the details are essentially the same in both texts. However l'Hôpital added much in both quantity and quality. For one thing Bernoulli's Lectiones occupied 37 manuscript pages compared to 70 typeset pages for the first four chapters of the Analyse but the Marquis added much more than mere verbiage to Bernoulli's lesson. He was a very talented pedagogue. He organized his material very well extracting general propositions where Bernoulli gave examples and explained matters clearly and in some detail. Furthermore he frequently included many illustrative examples gradually increasing in difficulty generally providing an appropriate level of detail but always leaving some things for readers to work out for themselves" Bradley pp. vii-xi. The last six chapters were not taken directly from Bernoulli's lectures although l'Hôpital has drawn on material provided to him in Bernoulli's letters or in his lessons on the integral calculus. Louis Carré's 1663-1711 father a prosperous farmer wanted him to become a priest but after having spent three years studying theology in Paris he refused to take holy orders and his father cut off all financial support for his son. Carré managed to avoid poverty by becoming an amanuensis to Malebranche. The group Malebranche had assembled at the Oratory in Paris included Varignon and l'Hôpital among others. Carré spent seven years with Malebranche after which he became a private tutor in Paris specializing in the teaching of women then barred from a university education many of whom were nuns.At this stage Carré seems to have been interested mainly in philosophy and did not take much interest in current mathematical research. However on 4 February 1699 Varignon admitted him as one of his élèves in the Academy of Sciences. This stimulated Carré's interest in mathematics and he began working on his Methode pour Ia mesure des surfaces . The work is divided into four Sections: On the measure i.e. area of surfaces. On the dimension i.e. volume of solids.3 On centres of gravity. On centres of percussion and oscillation. The centre of percussion is the point on a solid body attached to a pivot where a perpendicular impact will produce no reactive shock at the pivot. The same point is called the centre of oscillation for the body suspended from the pivot as a pendulum meaning that a simple pendulum with all its mass concentrated at that point will have the same period of oscillation. The formula for the centre of oscillation originally derived by Huygens in his Horologium oscillatorium 1673 requires certain integrations to be performed. Carré made an error in calculating the integral for the moment of inertia of a cone suspended from its vertex a mistake that led to an incorrect expression for the centre of oscillation of the cone. Lenore Feigenbaum explains that the story of Carré's mistake and the subsequent propagation of his error in eighteenth-century calculus textbooks "is instructive in several regards: first in showing how some of the methods of the calculus were interpreted and absorbed during the early 18th century; second in shedding light on the nature of the textbook industry of the time; and finally in providing us with a modicum of historical sympathy when we find our own students making the same kind of mistakes." Between 1701 and 1705 Carré published over a dozen papers on a variety of mathematical and physical subjects which led to him being admitted to the Academy of Sciences as an Associate Mechanician on 15 February 1702 and being promoted to Pensioner on 18 August 1706. This provided him with an income which allowed him to devote himself entirely to his academic studies during the final five years of his life. At age 46 he suffered an attack of dyspepsia from which he died in 1711. I. Babson Supplement p.30; Honeyman 2006 & 2007; Norman 1345; Sotheran First Supplement 1411; not in Macclesfield. II. Macclesfield 481; Poggendorff I 383-384; Sotheran I 704. Bradley Petrilli & Sandifer. L'Hôpital's Analyse des infiniments petits. An Annotated Translation with Source Material by Johann Bernoulli 2015. Grattan-Guinness ed. Landmark writings in Western mathematics 1640-1940 2005. Two works bound in one volume 4to 251 x 186 mm pp. xviii 181 3 with 11 folding engraved plates; pp. xii 115 1 blank and 4 folding engraved plates. Old signature cut from first title and expertly repaired. Contemporary French calf spine gilt with red lettering-piece. Fine copies. / Hardcover. L'imprimerie Royale; Jean Boudot unknown

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LAFAILLE (Germain de).Livre Rare Book

ANNALES DE LA VILLE DE TOULOUSE depuis la réunion de la Comté de Toulouse à la Couronne : avec un abrégé de l'ancienne histoire de cette ville et un recueil de divers titres et actes pour servir de Preuves ou d'éclaircissement à ces Annales. [2 volumes].

16870031851687 Toulouse, Colomyez & Posuël, 1687-1701. Deux forts volumes in-folio (257 X 357 mm) basane blonde glacée, dos six nerfs, pièces de titre et de tomaison grenat, large encadrement de filet à froid sur les plats, tranches rouges (reliure ancienne). TOME I : (2) ff. blancs, titre, (18) ff., 149 pages, (1) f., 344 pages, (1) f., 128 pages, (18) ff., 20 pages ; [relié à la suite] titre, (3) ff. de dédicace et avertissement, 46 pages, (1) f. de table, (1) f. blanc. TOME II : titre, (4) ff. d'avertissement et errata, 548 pages, (2) ff., 112 pages, CII pages, (1) f., 20 pages, (20) ff. Pointes de rousseurs éparses, quelques feuillets uniformément roussis, erreurs de pagination et quelques feuillets intervertis sans manque.

Librairie ancienne & Moderne Eric Castéran · Toulouse, France1 500,00 €

ROBERVAL, Gilles Personne (or Personier) deBiblio.com

Aristarchi Samii de mundi systemate partibus et motibus ejusdem libellus. Adjectae sunt AE. de Roberval . notae in eundem labellum

16445431Paris: Antoine Bertier 1644. First edition. First edition exceptionally rare of Roberval's cosmology in which he expresses covertly his support for Copernicus and also formulates for the first time the law of universal attraction - that any two material bodies in the universe attract each other. This principle is normally ascribed to Robert Hooke who published it three decades later and to Newton in the Principia 1687.. THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL ATTRACTION . First edition exceptionally rare of Roberval's cosmology in which he expresses covertly his support for Copernicus and also formulates for the first time the law of universal attraction - that any two material bodies in the universe attract each other. This principle is normally ascribed to Robert Hooke who published it three decades later and to Newton in the Principia 1687. Roberval 1602-75 was one of the most brilliant members of Mersenne's circle. He developed indivisibles independently of Cavalieri invented an original method of drawing tangents and solved many of the problems on the cycloid that were formulated and solved by Pascal two decades later. However since almost nothing of his work was published in his lifetime he was for long eclipsed by Fermat Pascal and above all by Descartes his irreconcilable adversary. In fact Roberval himself published only two works the Traité de mécanique 1636 and the Aristarchi offered here; several of his other works appeared posthumously in the Divers ouvrages de mathématique et de physique 1693 but many remain unpublished even today. "Roberval's positivism appears in a particularly nuanced form in the book De mundi systemate of 1644 where he claimed to have translated an Arabic manuscript of Aristarchus to which he had added his own notes all of them favorable to the author. Yet he did not adhere to the system of Aristarchus to the exclusion of those of Ptolemy and Tycho Brahe. In the dedication of the work Roberval wrote: 'Perhaps all three of these systems are false and the true one unknown. Still that of Aristarchus seemed to me to be the simplest and the best adapted to the laws of nature.' It is with this reservation that Roberval expressed his opinion on the great system of the world the solar system the minor systems planetary the motions of the sun and the planets the declination of the moon the apogees and perigees the agitation of the oceans the precession of the equinoxes and the comets. Despite this reservation Roberval appeared convinced of the existence of universal attraction which-under the inspiration of Kepler-he put forth as the foundation of his entire astronomy: 'In all this worldly matter the fluid of which the world is composed according to our author and in each of its parts resides a certain property or accident by the force of which this matter contracts into a single continuous body'" DSB. Like Copernicus Aristarchus ca. 310-230 BCE maintained that the Earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the Sun. However Aristarchus's work has not survived and the Arabic manuscript which Roberval claimed to have translated almost certainly did not exist. Roberval uses it as a cover to express his support albeit nuanced for heliocentrism still a dangerous idea at the time. OCLC lists Cornell Huntington and Linda Hall in US. No other copies in auction records. "Gilles Personne was born in the village of Roberval near Senlis in 1602. Nothing is known about his early education; his father was a poor farmer or farmworker and the young mathematician who would later add 'de Roberval' his surname seems to have led the peripatetic life of an impoverished student passing through several universities and alternately studying and teaching. In 1628 he settled in Paris; there he got to know Mersenne who recognised his talents and encouraged him to work on the problem of the curve known as the 'trochoid' 'roulette' or 'cycloid.' In 1632 Roberval was given a teaching post at the Collège de Maître Gervais; two years later he obtained a more eminent position the Ramus chair of mathematics at the Collège Royal. He would remain in this professorship for forty-one years - a permanent fixture as it were of Parisian intellectual life - until his death in 1675. But the peculiar terms on which holders of this Ramus chair were appointed had a very negative influence on both his work and his later reputation. The chair was tenable for a period of three years; at the end of that time it was opened to a public competition in which anyone including the incumbent could apply for it. Candidates were required not only to lecture but also to demonstrate theorems and solve problems put to them by all comers. As a result the practice grew up of the incumbent trying to ensure his reappointment by proposing problems which only he could solve. Whatever were the most advanced discoveries Roberval was making at any time therefore he had an incentive to keep them secret so that he could use them to confound his competitors on these triennial occasions. One consequence was that most of his important work in his special field - geometry - remained unpublished in his lifetime. And another consequence was that Roberval would more than once become embroiled in disputes about precedence insisting that he had made key discoveries long before they were published by others; in 1646 for example he would make bitter accusations against Torricelli alleging that his analysis of the cycloid had been derived in an underhand way from Roberval's unpublished work. Even when he did allow some of his work to circulate he favoured a method of publication that was both limited and carefully monitored. As the English mathematician John Pell would later recall 'many yeares agoe some pieces of Mr Roberval were published after the old fashion. That is they were not given to a Printer; but any man that would pay for the transcribing might have had a coppy of them.' "Roberval was by all accounts a prickly character quick to take offence and with a high opinion of his own worth. As those were also the most prominent characteristics of René Descartes it is hardly surprisingly that a fierce enmity quickly sprang up between them. Roberval was almost ostentatiously unimpressed by Descartes' 'Géométrie' one of the essays published with his Discours de la méthode in 1637; his cool and critical comments transmitted to the author by their mutual friend Mersenne elicited an angry reaction. Relations between them were further soured by Descartes' quarrel with Fermat about the construction of tangents in 1638 in which Roberval became one of Fermat's leading defenders; not long afterwards Descartes accused Roberval of purloining his own ideas about the cycloid. Meanwhile Mersenne himself remained on the best of terms with both of these disputants. Indeed he seems to have had not only a deep admiration of Roberval's mathematical talents - he described him as scarcely inferior to Archimedes - but also a real personal fondness for him. Mersenne made a special effort to promote the writings of this far from prolific author: he added Roberval's brief treatise on mechanics at the end of book 3 of his own Harmonie universelle Paris 1636; he included material from the Latin version of that treatise in his compilation of 1644 Cogitata physico-mathematica; he encouraged and assisted the publication of Roberval's astronomical work Aristarchi Samii de mundi systemate libellus in 1644; he also reprinted that entire work in his own later compilation of 1647 Novarum observationum . tomus III. And throughout his own writings Mersenne referred to Roberval in terms both laudatory and affectionate calling him simply 'our geometer' - 'Geometra noster'" Malcolm pp. 157-8. "In 1644 Gilles Personne de Roberval published a small cosmological treatise entitled Aristarchi Samii de Mundi Systemate partibus & motibus eiusdem libellus. The book is attributed to the ancient Aristarchus of Samos and Roberval claims it to be an annotated translation of a recently recovered Arabic manuscript . Roberval tells the reader that the Arabic manuscript was translated under his and Mersenne's supervision at the expense of the royal counsellor. He does not explicitly defend the authenticity of the manuscript or even its origin as a true ancient source. Roberval does however imply the manuscript's authenticity at least by the style and disposition of the treatise. The epistle informs us that in addition to the translated text Roberval will also help the reader by inserting certain notes. These are given within the text are labelled as 'NOTA' and end with the abbreviation 'P.N.E.M.' 'pondere numero et mensura' the motto of the mathematicians of the Collège Royal. Usually the notes present new discoveries which were unknown by the author in order to corroborate or refute Aristarchus's opinions. "Not many took the book to be an authentic ancient treatise. Most philosophers mathematicians or scientists realized that the book was not authentic and that the name of Aristarchus was used just as a cover for a seventeenth century author. They were of course right. However as Heath observed more than a hundred years ago 'there was every excuse for Roberval. The times were dangerous.' Only ten years before he wrote the Aristarchi Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World was condemned. The French context was uncertain as geocentric systems were actively defended in the 1630s. In 1632 Libert Froidmond arguing against Philip and Jacob Lansbergen's heliocentric system published the Anti-Aristarchus sive Orbis-terrae immobilis. Two years later Froidmond followed up with another treatise the Vesta sive Ant-Aristarchi Vindex. Furthermore Roberval's Parisian colleague Jean Baptiste Morin had published the Famosi et antique problematis de telluris motu strongly arguing against Galileo and Copernicanism" Babeş pp. 95-97. In the Aristarchi Roberval not only discusses heliocentrism he gives a complete theory of the motion of the Earth Moon and planets. It is based on three principles. "The Sun as a cause of motion. From the very first chapter of the Aristarchi Roberval explains all motion of the system of the world by two principles. One of them is a principle of attraction stating that the fluid heavenly matter has in every one of its parts a certain property by which it tends to unite with all the other parts of matter. If the Sun would be absent from the world all heavenly matter would reunite in a perfect sphere. The second principle concerns the action of the Sun. By its heat the Sun continuously rarefies the surrounding matter. The rarefaction results in the elongation of matter which is pushed towards the extremity of the system. The sun also has an axial motion of its own by which the eviction of the rarefied matter takes place. This motion impresses upon the celestial bodies their periodical movement around the Sun. However throughout the Sun's axial rotations the ejections of rarefied matter do not have a constant flux and thus the motions of heavenly bodies around the sun are not uniform. "The movements of the Earth's system. As one of the planetary systems the Earth is moved around the Sun by the continuous pushing of the elongated matter coupled with the attractive property of the celestial matter. The system of the Earth retains its quasi-spherical shape due to an analogous attractive property of the elemental matter which accounts for the weight of terrestrial bodies. The terrestrial matter is however different from the heavenly matter. It is very mixed and it is unevenly disposed on the surface of the Earth. Therefore the Sun unevenly elongates the airy and fiery atmosphere surrounding the Earth and as a result the diurnal motion of the Earth is irregular. To this is added a third reason of the irregularity the influence of the Moon. "The periodical movement of the Moon. According to Roberval the Moon is a part of the system of the Earth. Its density is similar to that of the superior atmosphere such that it revolves together with the air and fire around the Earth. Roberval claims that the moon floats in the superior atmosphere in the same way as a submerged piece of wax floats in water. Its orbit however in not circular but oval-shaped. This shape is responsible for the ebb of the seas: at its perigee the Moon compresses the air below it which in turn exerts a pressure on the ocean. Likewise the Moon disturbs the flow of rarefied matter coming from the Sun which also affects the diurnal motion of the Earth" Babeş pp. 110-111. What is particularly noteworthy here is the "property of matter by which it tends to unite with all the other parts of matter" the first suggestion of the 'universal attraction' between material bodies. "In his System of the World Roberval asserts that each part of the fluid matter which fills the universe is endowed with a certain property that makes all parts draw together and attract each other reciprocally p. 39. At the same time he admits that in addition to this universal attraction there are other similar forces proper to each of the planets something that Copernicus and Kepler also admitted which hold them together and explain their spherical shapes . "Roberval's cosmology as it is presented in his System of the World . was heartily condemned by Descartes and Newton was deeply angered by Leibniz's identification of Newton's views with those of Roberval. Yet historically Roberval's work is interesting not only because it was the first attempt to develop a 'system of world' on the basis of universal attraction but also because it presented some characteristic features or patterns of explanation which or at least the analogues of which we shall find discussed later by Hooke and advocated by Newton and Leibniz. "Thus according to Roberval the fluid and diaphanous matter which fills or constitutes the 'great system of the world' forms a huge - but finite - sphere in the center of which is the sun. The sun a hot and rotating body exerts a double influence on this fluid matter: a It heats and thus rarefies it; it is this rarefaction and the ensuing expansion of the world-matter that counterbalances the force of the mutual attraction of its various parts and prevents them from falling upon the sun. This rarefaction also confers on the world-sphere a particular structure; the density of its matter increases with the distance from the sun. b The sun's rotating motion spreads through the whole world-sphere the matter of which turns around the sun with speeds diminishing with its distance from the sun. The planets are considered as small systems analogous to the great one which swim or place them selves at distances from the sun corresponding to their densities that is in regions the density of which is equal to their own; thus they are carried around the sun by the circular motion of the celestial matter as is the case with bodies swimming in a rotating vessel. Strangely enough Roberval - who never takes any account of centrifugal forces - believes that these bodies will describe circular trajectories!" Koyré pp. 59-60. The engraved plate which is repeated in this copy appears to be often lacking: it is not present in the BNF copy digitized on Gallica for example. In the reprint of the work in Mersenne's Novarum observationum . tomus III the two astronomical diagrams on the plate are printed within the text each of them several times. Babeş 'Roberval's scepticism in the Aristarchi Samii De Mundi Systemate' Studia Ubb. Philosophia 65 2020 pp. 95-114. Koyré Newtonian Studies 1965. Malcolm Aspects of Hobbes 2002. 12mo 142 x 83mm pp. viii 148 with one engraved plate showing two astronomical diagrams bound before title and repeated at end two small paper flaws in aii affecting three letters but not the sense occasional light browning and foxing. Contemporary vellum darkened and stained. A genuine untouched copy of an extremely rare book. Antoine Bertier unknown

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[ARISTOTLE Doubtful or Suppositious Works, "Problemata"]Biblio.com

Aristotelis Aliorumque Problemata: cui de Novo Accessere Jul. Caesaris Scaligeri Problemata Gilliana

16437081Amsterdam: Jodocum Janssonium 1643 Contemporary stiff vellum with title in manuscript on spine. Twelvemo. Engraved title-page. A few pages a little browned. Generally a very good clean copy. Scarce: OCLC lists five copies two in North America. Jodocum Janssonium, hardcover

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Silius Italicus or Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius ItalicusABAA

C. SILII ITALICI VIRI CONSULARIS DE BELLO PUNICO SECUNDO LIBRI XVII. Christophorus Cellarius recensuit & Notis & Tabulis Geographicis ac gemino Indice Rerum & Latinitatis illustrauit

169568499Lipsiae Leipzig: Thomas Fritsch 1695. Hardcover. Very good. Silius c.28-c.103 was consul in 68 and governor of the province of Asia in 69; he sought no further office but lived thereafter on his estates as a literary man and collector. He revered the work of Cicero whose Tusculan villa he owned and that of Virgil whose tomb at Naples he likewise owned and near which he lived. His epic Punica in 17 books on the second War with Carthage 218-202 BC draws heavily on Livy's account. Conceived as a contrast between two great nations and their supporting gods championed by the two great heroes Scipio and Hannibal his poem is written in pure Latin and smooth verse filled throughout with echoes of Virgil above all and other poets. Includes supplementary material by the German classicist Christoph Cellarius. 22 586 52. Frontispiece engraving with a title page decoration and six folding maps. 12mo. In a contemporary full vellum binding. Typical mild browning to the contents with a negligible spot to the top edge. Minor soiling to the vellum; otherwise very good. Thomas Fritsch hardcover books

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VERDUSSEN (Hieronimus)Livre Rare Book

CARTE OV LISTE.

1627WOC-795Contenant le prix de chacun Marcq, Once, Eftrelin & As, poids de Troyes, de toutes les efpeces d'or & d'argent deffendues, legieres, ou trop vfeés, & moyennant ce declarées pour billon, comme les Maiftres des Monnoyes & Changeurs fermentez font tenuz d'en payer pour icelles, felon l'Ordonnance de fa Maiefté, faicte par les Generaulx des Monnoyes, au mois de Mars 2627, auec les figures defdictes efpeces. Anvers, Chez Hierofine Verduffen, Imprimeur des Monnoyes de fa Maiefté, demeutanten la ruë dicte Cammerftrate, à l'Enfeigne du Lion rouge, 1627, Avec Grace & Priuilege. In-8 (20x16cm) reliure moderne imitation demi veau ancien à coins, dos nerfs orné de fleurons doré et titre sur maroquin rouge. Ouvrage non paginé. Ouvrage contenant 3 ex-libris.

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Sayro, PDGregoria (1560-1602) [ie Gregorius Sayrus or Gregory Sayer] P D GBiblio.com

CASUUM CONSCIENTIAE Sive Theologiae Moralis Thesaurus authore Revver.P.D.Gregorio Sayro Anglo

1614V75293Venice Italy: Sassas 4th edition with corrections errors. Expurged 1614. Hardcover. Good. with Sessa Cat printer's mark but instead of cat with mouse in her mouth this has Cat with one mouse under her paw while she watches another scuttle away. . Folio in 6's near contemporary calf binding on 5 raised bands with gilt ruled frame and oval gilt floral wreath to both covers spine gilt titled and 2 compartments with flower ornament lower 3 compartments of spine newly repaired titlepage printed in red and black 6p=Introduction to Reader 4p=contents & author citations 60pp=index 623pp in double columns with foliated initails of various sizes.The title page with 2 ownership entries crossed out and on the blank verso a violet ink stamp of the Convent at Mons while the pastedown has a small label of the Capucian Convent Montensis. This work first came out in 1601 in Venice while Sayro was with the Benedictine Monastery in Italy. It is a set of rules and punishments for the ecclesiastical communities up to and including excommunication published on the eve of the Thirty Years War. Only 2 copies in the English COPAC libraries British Library and Leeds Brotherton Special Collections neither with this publisher or in this edition Earlier edition published in Venice in 1606 and 1601. Sassas 4th edition with corrections errors.. Expurged hardcover

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Joannis Hesselii (Jean Hessels) & Johannes Molanus (Jan Vermeulen or Jan van der Meulen)Biblio.com

Catechismus Joannis Hesselii Lovaniensis S. Theol. Doctoris & Prof. Regii

1691Alibris.0035927Louvain Belgium: Aegidium Denique. 1691. 8th ed. Full leather. Fair. Ex-library. Vol. 1 hinges are splitting large chips at top of spines small label at bottom of vol. 1 call number at bottom of vol. 2 covers worn & slightly bowed labels inside front covers vol. 2 front hinge is partly-separated inscription. 2 volume set. 1243 p. Includes index. 2 volume set. Volume 1: 226081633 pp. 769 pp. Volume 2: 64983624 pp. 564 pp. Index appears towards the end of each volume. . Subtitle of first volume Tomus Primus: Solidam & orthodoxam continens explicationem symboli apostolici orationis Dominicæ salutationis angelicæ præceptorum Decalogi & priorum trium sacramentorum. / Subnexa est ejusdem Censura super legenda sanctorum cum notis Joannis Molani Sacrae Theologiae Doctoris. Subtitle of second volume Tomus Seecundus: Soli dam & Orthodoxam continens Explicationem quatuor postremorum Sacramentorum Paenitentiae Extreme Unctionis & Matrimonii. Accedit ejusdem Authoris Responsio ad Quaestionem propositam ab Abbate Aquicinctino Ad quid teneatur Religiosus vi Voti sui Aegidium Denique hardcover

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GODDEN, Thomas (Thomas TYLDEN or TILDEN)Biblio.com

Catholicks No Idolaters. Or a Full Refutation of Doctor Stillingfleet's Unjust Charge of Idolatry against the Church of Rome

1672QQ0466No publisher 1672. Original full dark brown mottled calf triple blind fillets framing boards triple fillets parallel to spine to front and rear boards. Raised bands blind decor and red gilt label to spine. Remains of blind decor to board edges. Hinges secure cords all holding firm though leather of front hinge cracked except for a 1cm section at base and rear board is cracked at top over hinge c. 3cm. Small loss to top spine. 8vo 11.8 x 18.4cm. All edges marbled faded. Endpapers cracked at gutters. Recent bookplate and minor pencil annots to inside front board. Typographic headpiece. Very minor tidemark to bottom margin of pp. 437-444. A response to Stillingfleet's 'notorious book on Idolatry among Catholics' Clancy the 1671 'Discourse concerning the idolatry practised in the Church of Rome' which was itself answered by Daniel Whitby and Stillingfleet himself. The 5pp. dedication to the queen is signed 'T. G.' for Thomas Godden pseudonym of Thomas Tylden or Tilden 1622-1688 Roman Catholic controversialist. The son of a tanner from Kent Tylden converted to Catholicism as a young man and by 1656 was president of the English College in Lisbon where he was created D.D. in 1660. In 1661 he was appointed chaplain and preceptor to Princess Catherine of Braganza: he accompanied her to England and was among the witnesses to her marriage to Charles II after which he remained a member of her household serving as chaplain and treasurer: 'it is said that he taught her to speak English' ODNB. According to Bishop John Russell Tylden 'spent his life at court as though in the cloister and "he was very dear to the Queen and not disliked by the King"' ODNB. His refutation of Stillingfleet in Catholicks No Idolaters was his 'most important work' ODNB. This copy has the separate section of 48pp. before the main body of the work called for in ESTC but according to Clancy 'not to be found in most . copies'. ESTC R16817; Clancy 962.3. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 32 48 448pp. No publisher Hardcover

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[NIEROP, Adriaen van or Simon van MIDDELGEEST?]. WAER-MOND, Yemand van (pseudonym).Biblio.com

Codicille van de Nederlandsche Oorloghe waer in sy eenighe Vrienden Wel-Doenders ende Dienaren in haer principael Testament van date den tweeden Februarij 1609. vergheten zynde . den 12. Martij des selven jaers. Noch een Wellecom-Dicht van het Bestandt. Noch andere ghedichten van bestandighe vrede.

1609A86ACTMRTZ41Franc end al" = Amsterdam: Frederijck de Vrije" 1609. Disbound. Small 4to. Poems celebrating the truce with Spain though attributed to a former opponent of the truce with the Dutch poems in textura types and Latin marginal notes in roman. A political pamphlet in verse celebrating peace and dated less than a month before the signing of the Twelve Years' Truce between Spain and the Dutch Republic. The main poem takes the form of a "codicil" to War's "last will and testament." It recites the various legacies both good and bad that the War has left to people on both sides and even to people and countries not directly involved in the fighting. Asher mistakenly lists the present pamphlet as no. 11 in the Bye-Korf series: it was published about six months after the Bye-Korf was banned but later collectors often inserted it and the associated Testament in place of the earlier Testament which should have been Asher 26-28/10. The author place of publication and publisher given on the title-page are all word plays "Yemand van Waer-Mond" for example suggesting "someone of honest mouth." The STCN attributes the pamphlet with a query to Nierop who propagandized against peace in one of the Bye-Korf pamphlets Asher 28/37 but rejoiced in it once it came. Alden & Landis attributes the associated Testament ofte Wtersten Wille to Middelgeest. The poet's four-line verse on the back of the title-page is signed with the motto: "Yet Meer en mocht/Min en docht Niet."A nice view of popular feelings about the Truce just before it formally took effect.With some tears at the fold of the outermost bifolium and only slightly browned otherwise a very good copy.l Asher 26-28/11; Knuttel 1584; Simoni W 34; Tiele 751; OCLC WorldCat 3 copies. Frederijck de Vrije", unknown

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VITTORE, PIETRO (or Piero) (Lat PETRUS VICTORIUS). [ARISTOTELES - ARISTOTLE].Biblio.com

Commentarii in primum librum Aristotelis de Arte Poetarum. Positis singulas declarationes Graecis auctoris. Iisdemque ad verbum Latine expressis. Acessit rerum et verborum memorabiblium index locupletissimus. - THE GREATEST EDITION OF ARISTOTLE'S POETICS

161062508Florence In officina Iuntaru Barnardi Filiorum 1560. Small folio. 18th century full vellum with gilt labels to spine. Wear to capitals and small worm tracts towrad opper hinges. Corners a bit bumped. A very nice and sturdy binding. Marbled edges. Some browspotting throughout. Small wormholes to blank margin of final leaf far from affecting imprint. Woodcut vignette to title-page and to verso of colophon-leaf. 10 308 12 ff. The rare first edition of Vittore's main work his great edition translation and commentary on Aristotle's Poetics which is arguably the most important and influential commentary on the work ever published profoundly shaping our understanding and interpretation of Aristotelian literary theory. Petrus Victorius or Piero/ Pietro Vittore/Vettore 1499-1584 is not only the â€œfirst great editor of the Poeticsâ€ McMahon he is also considered "the greatest Greek scholar of Italy" Whibley â€œthe leading Italian scholar of his timeâ€ Encycl. Britt. â€œthe last great figure from that period in the domain of Greek studiesâ€ Willamowitz and â€œthe foremost representative of classical scholarship in Italy during the sixteenth century which for Italy at least may well be called the â€œsaeculum Victorianumâ€.â€ Sandys. His magnum opus and without doubt most influential work is his edition with commentary of Aristotleâ€™s Poetics which is of seminal importance in several respects. It is crucial to our understanding of Aristotleâ€™s great work shaping the way that all later scholars have read it. The understanding of Aristotleâ€™s work on poetry came to define the way that we have understood literature and fiction ever since the Renaissance and Victorius is the leading interpreter. â€œâ€œFrom the sixteenth century to Romanticism European literary theory used the term marvel or wonder It. meraviglia ammirabile Fr. merveille Sp. maravilla to designate everything that was on the conceptual margins of the poetics of probability and imitation. The discovery and complete reception of Aristotleâ€™s Poetics between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries resulted in the dissemination of an idea of poetry as the imitation of the actions of men whose main part was the plot or the structuring of actions ordered according to the laws of necessity credibility and probability. This formed the basis of Neo-Aristotelian poetics which determined the ways of thinking about literature and fiction for more than four centuries.â€ Vega p. 280. Especially the idea of â€œwonderâ€ in Aristotleâ€™s Poetics came to be one of the founding ideas of modern literary theory. And especially here Victuriusâ€™ reading is groundbreaking playing a central part in the reception and understanding of the work over the centuries to come. â€œA single editorial decision in just one passage and what is more in a complex fragmentary unfinished text like the Poetics affects the entire workâ€¦â€ Vega p. 284. â€œThe text of the Poetics that can be read in the editions and translations of the sixteenth century and a large part of the seventeenth with one exception as we shall see NB. This exception is Victorius does not include the term alogon in the passage that deals with wonder. It does not appear in the first Greek edition the famous Aldine princeps of 1508 or in the Latin translations of the end of the fifteenth century; it is not in the edition and translation by Alexander Paccius or Pazzi the one most widely read in the sixteenth century neither does it appear in the edition with commentary by Francesco Robortello nor in Vincenzo Maggiâ€™s Enarrationes nor in the vernacular commentaries of Ludovico Castelvetro and Alessandro Piccolomini. What is more a detailed revision of the history of the text reveals that no manuscript of the Poetics and no direct or indirect testimonies not even in the Arabic branch of its transmission have ever included the term alogon.â€ Vega p. 282. It is Victorius who is solely responsible for the reading that is generally accepted today as well. â€œThe moment when the idea of irrationality alogon appears for the first time in Aristotleâ€™s text can be identified without hesitation as 1560 which is the date when the edition translation and commentary on the Poetics by the philologist and Hellenist Pier Vettori or Victorius was printed on the presses of Giunti in Florence. Vettori is the one who first edits alogon even though no testimony provides him with this reading and he does so fully aware of his choice and its implicationsâ€ Vega pp. 287-89. â€œThe success of Victoriusâ€™ reading while not immediate was extraordinary.â€ Vega p. 287 Antonio Viperano accepts the reading â€œalogonâ€ with all it involves De poetica libri tres Ricciboni adapts it in his edition of Aristotleâ€™s Poetics Tasso embraces it Discorsi dellâ€™arte poetica Discorsi del poema eroico and it is implicit in Alonso LÃ³pez Pincianoâ€™s Philosophia Antigua Poetica. Vossius in 17th century Germany makes abundant glosses on alogon in his books on poetics and the commentators and translators of the â€œPoeticsâ€ in France preferred Victoriusâ€™ reading in every case. â€œVictoriusâ€™ conjecture seems to have convinced all editors and commentators who reproduce it without question in every case.â€ Vega p. 289. The influence of Victoriusâ€™ interpretation of Aristotelian literary theory that he presented in his magnum opus i.e. the present work was not limited to the use of specific words that changed the reception history of Aristotleâ€™s Poetics. His entire view of poetry through an interpretation of Aristotle was highly original and came to define the way we understand literature in general. Victorius was one of the first to put forth the belief that heroic poetry should present a Platonic idea of perfect virtue contributing to the centuries long doctrine of the perfect hero as perfect exemplar and he was one of the first to revive Aristotleâ€™s idea of purgation from tragedy still widespread today and to also understand the existence of a purgation from poetry. â€œHe viewed poetry as a moderator of minds â€œBy reading poetry men â€œbecome moderate in temper and their turbid motions are extinguished.â€ Poems â€œpurge our minds of blemish and spotâ€. Vettori realized that Aristotleâ€™s reference to catharsis should be applied to tragedy alone but he added that similar purgations could be achieved by other kinds of poetry effective however on other passions than pity and fear and with the aid of other instruments.â€ Hathaway pp. 292-93. Apart from his overall interpretation of Aristotleâ€™s literary theory and his groundbreaking reading of the most central passages of the Poetics Victorius was also the first to determine that the Aristotelian text that has come down to us is not complete. â€œVictorius was the first to see that the treatise now known as the Poetics is only the surviving portion of a larger work.â€ Bywater p. XX. â€œduring his lifetime five medals were struck in his i.e. Victoriusâ€™ honour and his portrait was painted by Titianâ€¦ His fame was not limited to his own land or his own time. His scrupulous care and unwearied industry are lauded by Turnebus who declines to be compared with him even for a moment; the epiteths doctissiums optimus and fidelissimus are applied to him by the younger and the greater of the two Scaligers while Muretus calls him eruditorum coryphaeus; and similar eulogies might be quoted from Justus Lipsius. Dacius â€¦ and Graevius. He is described as having climbed the â€œhill of virtueâ€ and taken his place on its summit between Cicero and Aristotle. In his funeral oration Salviati says of him in the personification of Italia: â€œNow no more shall distant peoples cross the snows of the Alps to see Victorius or men of mark arrive from every land to hear him; or princes hold converse with him. Now no more shall the works of scholars in all parts of the world be sent here for his approval; or youth learn wisdom from his lips.â€ Sandys pp. 139-40. â€œNo one said a contemporary of his in a funerary laudatio â€˜left Aristotle in a cleaner state purgatiorâ€™.â€ Baldi. _____________________________________________ Adams: 1905; Brunet V: 1179; Graesse I: 213 â€Ã©dition excellente quant Ã la critiqueâ€ and noting that some copies bear the dates 1563 and 1564. Sandys: A History of Classical Scholarship Vol. II 2003 pp. 135-140. Hathaway Baxter: The Age of Criticism: The Late Renaissance in Italy. Cornell University Press 1962. A.Philip McMahon: On the Second Book of Aristotle's Poetics and the Source of Theophrastus' Definition of Tragedy Authors. In: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 1917 Vol. 28 1917 pp. 1-46. Christopher Rowe: Petrus Victorius and Aristotleâ€™s Eudemian Ethics Cambridge University Press online 2025. Vega Maria JosÃ©: Wonder and the Irrational. The Invention of Aristotleâ€™s Poetics in the Sixteenth Century. In: Nous Polis Nomos. Berlin Academia Verlag 2016. Baldi: Il greco a Firenze e Pier Vettori 1499â€“1585 Alessandria 2014 117. hardcover

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"VITTORE, PIETRO (or Piero) (Lat. PETRUS VICTORIUS). [ARISTOTELES - ARISTOTLE].Livre Rare Book

Commentarii, in primum librum Aristotelis de Arte Poetarum. Positis singulas declarationes Graecis auctoris. Iisdemque ad verbum Latine expressis. Acessit rerum et verborum memorabiblium index locupletissimus. - [THE GREATEST EDITION OF ARISTOTLE'S POETICS]

161062508Florence, In officina Iuntaru, Barnardi Filiorum, 1560. Small folio. 18th century full vellum with gilt labels to spine. Wear to capitals and small worm tracts towrad opper hinges. Corners a bit bumped. A very nice and sturdy binding. Marbled edges. Some browspotting throughout. Small wormholes to blank margin of final leaf, far from affecting imprint. Woodcut vignette to title-page and to verso of colophon-leaf. (10), 308, (12) ff.

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Crato von Krafftheim, Johannes [or Johann Krafft]Biblio.com

Consiliorum & Epistolarum Medicinalium.Liber Primus Secundus Tertius Studio & labore Laurentii Scholzii. in lucem editus

160927318Frankfurt Hanover & Hanover: Apud Andrea Wecheli heredes Claudium Marnium & Joann Aubrium; Parts 2 & 3 Typis Wechelianis apud Claudium Marnium & Heredes Joan. Aubrii 1609. First published 1591-94. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. Three parts in one volume. Vellum. Some soiling and browning of vellum and text ties lacking else a very good copy with bookplate of Alfred Jerome Brown. First published 1591-94. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. This work was ultimately completed in seven parts. 'The Polish-German physician was the personal physician to both Emperor Ferdinand and Maximilian II in Austria. He wrote several medical works and was a follower of the Galenic school of medicine. He was one of the first to study the contagiousness of certain diseases. "Sixteenth Century Books in the National Library of Medicine" 1077 for the 1591-94 edition; Osler 2387 & 2388 earlier editions Apud Andrea Wecheli heredes, Claudium Marnium & Joann Aubrium; [Parts 2 & 3] Typis Wechelianis, apud Claudium Marnium & Heredes unknown

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Crato von Krafftheim Johannes or Johann KrafftABAA

Consiliorum & Epistolarum Medicinalium.Liber Primus Secundus Tertius Studio & labore Laurentii Scholzii. in lucem editus

160927318Frankfurt Hanover & Hanover: Apud Andrea Wecheli heredes Claudium Marnium & Joann Aubrium; Parts 2 & 3 Typis Wechelianis apud Claudium Marnium & Heredes Joan. Aubrii 1609. First published 1591-94. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. Three parts in one volume. Vellum. Some soiling and browning of vellum and text ties lacking else a very good copy with bookplate of Alfred Jerome Brown. First published 1591-94. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. This work was ultimately completed in seven parts. 'The Polish-German physician was the personal physician to both Emperor Ferdinand and Maximilian II in Austria. He wrote several medical works and was a follower of the Galenic school of medicine. He was one of the first to study the contagiousness of certain diseases. "Sixteenth Century Books in the National Library of Medicine" 1077 for the 1591-94 edition; Osler 2387 & 2388 earlier editions Apud Andrea Wecheli heredes, Claudium Marnium & Joann Aubrium; [Parts 2 & 3] Typis Wechelianis, apud Claudium Marnium & Heredes unknown books

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PASQUALI or PASCHAL, Carlo [1547-1625]Biblio.com

Coroniae Opus X

1671GSQroPAS57Leyden: Joannis à Gelder 1671. 1671. 8vo. pp. 8 p.l. 730 37index 1errata. additional etched title. woodcut device on title. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary vellum overlapping fore-edges soiled. Second Edition first: 1610 of this historical treatise on crowns. The author a negotiator and antiquary served Henry IV of France as ambassador to England in 1589. Brunet IV 404. Graesse V 148. Leyden: Joannis à Gelder, 1671. hardcover

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TACQUET, Andre (or Andreas)Biblio.com

Cylindricorum et annularium libri IV: item De circulorum volutione per planum dissertatio physiomathica

16515427Antwerp: Jacob van Meurs 1651. First edition. First edition very rare and a fine copy. "Tacquet's most important mathematical work Cylindricorum et annularium contained a number of original theorems on cylinders and rings. Its main importance however lay in its concern with questions of method. Tacquet rejected all notions originating with Cavalieri that solids are composed of planes planes of lines etc." DSB. "It was Tacquet's decisive influence followed by Pascal's large-scale implementation which allowed the passage from indivisibles to infinitesimals" Julien Seventeenth-Century Indivisibles Revisited.. 'ALLOWED THE PASSAGE FROM INDIVISIBLES TO INFINITESIMALS' . First edition very rare and a fine copy. "Tacquet's most important mathematical work Cylindricorum et annularium contained a number of original theorems on cylinders and rings. Its main importance however lay in its concern with questions of method. Tacquet rejected all notions originating with Cavalieri that solids are composed of planes planes of lines and so on except as heuristic devices for finding solutions. The approach he adopted was that of Luca Valerio and Gregorius of Saint-Vincent an essentially Archimedean method" DSB. "Tacquet's criticisms must have been effective because indivisibles became homogeneous magnitudes as a result of innovations introduced during the course of the seventeenth century" Rossini p. 465. The historian of mathematics Henri Bosmans "states that it was Tacquet's decisive influence followed by Pascal's large-scale implementation which allowed what is sometimes referred to as the passage from indivisibles to infinitesimals" Julien p. 187. "In this work the ideas that the tangent and the area under a curve were inverse to each other appeared. It arises from the way that Tacquet thought of curves generated by moving points but not actually comprising of points. Of course this idea is an early form of what would become clear when the calculus was invented namely that the derivative and integral were inverse to each other. This book had a considerable effect on Pascal and was important in setting the scene for the invention of the calculus" MacTutor. Bosmans has pointed out the debt owed to Tacquet's Cylindricorum et annularium by Pascal in his preparation of the Lettres de Dettonville 1659. Indeed in the Lettre à Carcavy Pascal writes that Tacquet's book is full of "learned geometry" praises how Tacquet "handles the indivisibles with all desirable rigour" and refers specifically to Tacquet for a result on the approximation of a surface by inscribed and circumscribed polyhedra see Descotes. "The change in Pascal to a clear point of view with respect to infinitesimals may well have come from Pascal's reading of Tacquet's Cylindricorum et annularium in which the author denied the validity of concluding anything about the ratio of surfaces from the ratio of their indivisibles or lines" Boyer p. 151. This is a rare work particularly in commerce. ABPC/RBH list only the Turner copy from the University of Keele offered by a prominent London dealer in 2002 and subsequently sold at Reiss in 2005 quite a poor copy in modern binding with some paper repairs and a partially removed library stamp. Ours is a fine untouched copy in contemporary binding. Provenance: Contemporary ownership inscription on title of "Conde da Torre" possibly the Portuguese nobleman João de Mascarenhas 1633-1681 second Count of Torre and first Marquis of Fronteira. "The Jesuit mathematician André Tacquet 1612-60 was by the standards of his time a man of the world. Although he may never have left his native Flanders his network of correspondents spanned Europe's religious divide reaching to Italy and France but also to Protestant Holland and England. Only months before his death he entertained the Dutch polymath Christiaan Huygens who had travelled to Antwerp with the express purpose of meeting Tacquet by then regarded as one of the brightest mathematical stars ever to come out of the Society of Jesus . It was his mathematical excellence that transcended 17th-century prejudices. In England Henry Oldenburg secretary of the Royal Society of London and no friend of the Jesuits spent so much time describing Tacquet's Opera mathematica at the Society's meeting in January 1669 that he felt compelled to apologise to the fellows for abusing their patience. But it was he insisted 'one of the best books ever written on mathematics'" Alexander p. 118. "In 1651 André Tacquet the urbane Fleming whose work was celebrated by Catholics and Protestants alike published hisCylindricorum et annularium libri IV 'Four books on cylinders and rings' a work dedicated to the study of geometrical features of these figures and their applications. Befitting a Jesuit publication the frontispiece shows two angels bathed in divine light holding up a ring enclosing the book's title; on the ground below them a band of cherubs is busy putting the theory into practice. The implication is clear: divine mathematics universal and perfectly rational orders and arranges the physical world to the best possible effect. It is a fetching visual depiction of the Jesuit view of the role and nature of mathematics. "The Cylindricorum et annularium is Tacquet's most celebrated work the one that established his reputation as one of Europe's most original and creative mathematicians. As it turned out it may have been a bit too 'original and creative' for his superiors: when Tacquet sent a copy of the book the newly appointed superior general Goswin Nickel the general's response was surprisingly cool. After thanking the mathematician and congratulating him on the book Nickel added that it would be better if Tacquet applied his impressive gifts to producing textbooks of elementary geometry for use by students at the Society's colleges rather than original works aimed at a select audience of professional mathematicians . Tacquet a good soldier in the Army of Christ obeyed. From then on he published no more original work but concentrating instead on producing textbooks some of which are of such quality that they became standards in the field for over a century . "In his critique Tacquet is respectful even deferential toward his rivals. He refers to Cavalieri as 'a noble geometer' and insists that he 'does not wish to detract from the deserved glory' of Cavalieri's 'most beautiful invention' Geometria indivisibilibus 1635. Tacquet knew of what he spoke because he was himself deeply familiar with the work of Cavalieri and Torricelli and was no less capable than they of using their method to arrive at new results. But once he gets beyond his congenial style and mathematical mastery it becomes clear that Tacquet's opposition to the infinitely small is . unyielding . 'I cannot consider the method of proof by indivisibles as either legitimate or geometrical' he states flatly at the opening of his discussion of indivisibles. 'It proceeds from lines to surfaces from surfaces to solids and applies to the surface the quality or proportion obtained from the lines and transfers what was obtained from the surfaces to the solid.' 'By this method' he concludes 'nothing can be proven by anyone'" ibid. pp. 161-2. "André or Andreas Tacquet resembles his contemporary Torricelli in the generality of his adoption from his predecessors of varied infinitesimal methods. In his Cylindricorum et annularium libri IV he gave for example four demonstrations of the proposition that the volume of a sphere is equal to that of a cylindrical wedge whose base is half a great circle of the sphere and whose altitude is equal to the circumference of the sphere. This theorem had been given by a number of mathematicians since Kepler as well as by Archimedes in the Method probably not then extant. Tacquet however after proving the theorem in two ways by the use of inscribed and circumscribed figures gave two further demonstrations by indivisibles based on the equality of triangles and circular sections. Torricelli had himself been satisfied with the rigor of proofs by means of indivisibles although he supplied alternative demonstrations for the benefit of others. Tacquet on the other hand said that he did not consider that the method of Cavalieri was to be admitted as either legitimate or geometrical. He maintained that the cylindrical wedge could not in all strictness be considered as made up of triangles; nor could the sphere be regarded as composed of circles . A geometrical magnitude he asserted is made up only of homogenea that is parts of like dimension - a solid of small solids and area of small areas and a line of small lines - and not of heterogenea or parts of a lower dimension as Cavalieri had maintained. He therefore felt that a proposed magnitude is exhausted a word he undoubtedly acquired from Gregory of St. Vincent by inscribing homogenea within them 'as in the manner of the ancients'" Boyer pp. 139-140. Tacquet gave a famous example where Cavalieri's method led to incorrect results. On pp. 23-24 he considers a right-angled triangle with one horizontal and one vertical side. Rotating this triangle around the vertical side generates a cone. Each plane section of the cone parallel to the base determines a circle and the circumference of each of these circles bears the same ratio to its radius namely 2π to use our notation. Since the surface of the cone is made up of all these circular cross-sections and the triangle is made up of all the radii Cavalieri's method would imply that the same ratio is also that between the surface area of the cone and the area of the triangle. But this is not the case. Archimedes had used a double reductio ad absurdum style of proof to find areas and volumes and this argument continued to be used until the publication of Cavalieri's work. To show that the area of a given region is equal to A Archimedes showed that for any number B smaller than A an inscribed figure could be constructed whose area is greater than B the inscribed area was usually composed of rectangles or triangles so that its area could easily be determined. This shows that the area of the given region cannot be smaller than A. A similar argument with circumscribed figures shows that the area cannot be larger than A. This technique is usually referred to as the 'method of exhaustion.' In the Cylindricorum et annularium Tacquet gives two proofs of most of his results on rings and cylinders the first using a modified form of the exhaustion technique the second using indivisibles; the precision and rigour of the traditional method is repeatedly stressed. But Tacquet introduces a number of innovations in the use of the method of exhaustion. "Tacquet's book has two theorems dealing with exhaustion which are the foundation for nearly all other theorems in the book. The first proposition of the first book is reminiscent of Valerio's theorem De Centro Gravitatis Solidorum Libri Tres 1604: Let A and B be two magnitudes either areas or volumes and let the ratio of E to F be given. If one can consecutively inscribe into A and B a sequence of magnitudes that relate to one another as E to F and if these magnitudes exhaust A and B i.e. they differ from these by an arbitrarily small amount then the magnitude A will relate to the magnitude B as E to F. "Tacquet's general theorem has the advantage that he does not have to repeat a double reductio ad absurdum with each proof . "The first proposition of the second book introduces another exhaustion method: If a sequence of magnitudes Ain and Bin can be inscribed in magnitudes A and B and if likewise a sequence of magnitudes Acn and Bcn can be circumscribed about magnitudes A and B and if moreover Ain and Acn exhaust A and for the corresponding magnitudes we have Ain / Bin = E/F and Acn / Bcn = E/F then A/B = E/F. "The simplification lies in the fact that it is no longer necessary to exhaust the inscribed and circumscribed magnitudes for each of the magnitudes A and B as it suffices to calculate the ratio for one or the other . "An important new concept is found in Tacquet's definitions of surfaces and solids. He defines the cylinder for instance as a solid that is generated by the movement of a circle in such a way that one of the points of the circle segment moves along a straight line. The axis of this cylinder is the straight line joining the centre of two of the generated circles. Despite this definition he does not accept that the cylinder is composed of circles" ibid. pp. 214-5. An important example of Tacquet's 'kinetic' method of generating curves and surfaces is contained in the second part of the Cylindricorum et annularium entitled 'Dissertatio physico-mathematica de circulorum volutionibus' in which Tacquet studies the cycloid a curve traced out by a point on the circumference of a circle as it is rolled along a straight line. This curve was to be the focus of Blaise Pascal's work on indivisibles published in the Lettres de A. Dettonville 1659. "Although Pascal was undoubtedly attracted by the power of indivisible methods he was impressed by the careful geometrical approach of Grégoire de Saint-Vincent and swayed by the vigorous criticism of Cavalierian indivisibles launched by André Tacquet in his work Cylindricorum et annularium. Pascal was accordingly impelled to examine carefully the basis for the use of indivisibles in geometry" Baron pp. 199-200. "Blaise Pascal in a sense represents the highest development of the method of infinitesimals carried out under the tradition of classical geometry . Pascal was not a professional geometer and as a result his geometrical work was accomplished in two periods which were separated by an interval of mathematical inactivity from 1654 to 1658 during which he devoted his interests to theology. These two periods moreover are characterised by somewhat different views as to the nature of infinitesimals . In this connection he enunciated in the Potestatum numericarum summa of 1654 the theorem on the integral of xn . The essential point in Pascal's demonstration is the omission of terms of lower dimension . The geometrical intuition of indivisibles of lower dimension was carried over into arithmetic to justify the neglect of certain terms of lower degree . "In the later period of his mathematical activity his view appears to be modified. In connection with problems such as those in his Traité des sinus du quart de cercle of 1659 contained in the Lettres de Dettonville . he used the language of infinitesimals in speaking of the sum of all the ordinates; but he added that one need not fear to do this inasmuch as what is really meant is the sum of arbitrarily small rectangles" Boyer pp. 147-151. Bosmans sees Pascal's Potestatum numericarum summa as containing two mutually incompatible ideas about indivisibles. On the one hand Pascal sometimes regards indivisibles as rigorously null quantities as had Cavalieri. On the other hand he sometimes regards indivisibles as simply quantities that are negligible in comparison to other quantities. "Bosmans then strongly underlines the difference with the clarity of the Lettres de Dettonville where Pascal expresses himself with impeccable rigour substituting for the strict indivisibles of Cavalieri homogeneous quantities whosesums differ from that to be measured by less than any given quantity. He then finds the reason for this progress in the reading that Pascal would have made between 1654 and 1658 of the book published by Tacquet in 1651" Descotes pp. 1-2 our translation. In the last section of the Lettre à Carcavy Pascal refers specifically to Tacquet in his discussion of the problem of finding the area of a surface obtained by rotating a curve around a vertical axis. When an infinitesimal section of the curve is rotated one obtains a circular band; these bands together make up the whole surface. "This is properly what according to Dettonville Tacquet has demonstrated: 'The sum of these semi-circumferences of the surface of the semi-solid makes up this very surface as others have demonstrated among them Tacquet'. We find in fact in the Cylindricorum et annularium Book II 1st part a Proposition VI which corresponds to Pascal's words. Its object is to prove that if we consider in a great-circle BICQ on a sphere with diameter BC if we inscribe and circumscribe regular polygons on the semi-circle BIC and if we rotate these polygons around the diameter BC they inscribe and circumscribe in the sphere with solids whose surfaces differ from that of the sphere by a quantity which can be made as small as one wishes. We see how it accords with Pascal's thought: the inscribed and circumscribed segments generate bands during the rotation which at the limit can be said to compose the curved surface. In accordance with his principles Father Tacquet demonstrates it in the manner of the Ancients" ibid. p. 4. "Tacquet was the son of Pierre Tacquet a merchant and Agnes Wandelen of Nuremberg. His father apparently died while the boy was still young but left the family with some means. Tacquet received an excellent education in the Jesuit collège of his native town and a contemporary report describes him as a gifted if somewhat delicate child. In 1629 he entered the Jesuit order as a novice and spent the first two years in Malines and the next four in Louvain where he studied logic physics and mathematics. His mathematics teacher was William Boelmans a student of and secretary to Gregorius Saint Vincent. After his preliminary training Tacquet taught in various Jesuit collèges for five years notably Greek and poetry at Bruges from 1637 to 1639. From 1640 to 1644 he studied theology in Louvain and in 1644-45 he taught mathematics there. He took his vows on 1 November 1646 and subsequently taught mathematics in the collèges of Louvain 1649-55 and Antwerp 1645-49 1655-60" DSB. A second edition of the Cylindricorum et annularium was published in 1659 with the addition of a fifth book devoted to an unrelated subject the paradox of 'Aristotle's wheel'. The perceived unsuitability of the Cylindricorum at annularium for the Jesuit colleges may explain why it was not added to all copies of the Opera mathematica 1669 it was not present in the Macclesfield copy for example. De Backer-Sommervogel VII 1806 3; Poggendorff II 1064. Alexander Infinitesimal 2014. Baron The Origins of the Infinitesimal Calculus 1969. Boyer The History of the Calculus and its Conceptual Development 1949. Descotes 'Documents relatifs aux lettres de A. Dettonville I. Pascal et le Père Tacquet' Courrier du Centre international Blaise Pascal 14 1992 pp. 1-13. Julien ed. Seventeenth-Century Indivisibles Revisited 2015. Malet From indivisibles to infinitesimals 1996. Meskens Between Tradition and Innovation: Gregorio a San Vicente and the Flemish Jesuit Mathematics School 2021. Rossini 'Giordano Bruno and Bonaventura Cavalieri's theories of indivisibles: a case of shared knowledge' Intellectual History Review 28 2018 pp. 461-476. Small 4to 217 x 162 mm pp. xx 284 4 with 18 folding engraved plates the first 9 bound preceding title the remainder at end as in the instructions to binder on p. 286 full-page engraving on title second work with special half-title occasional light browning and spotting. Contemporary yapped limp vellum with manuscript title on spine remains of ties a few stains and light rubbing. Jacob van Meurs unknown

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TIYUNBANRUO 提雲般若 (or, in Sanskrit, DEVENDRAPRAJNA), transBiblio.com

Da cheng zao xiang gong de jing å¤§ä¹˜é€ åƒåŠŸå¾³ç¶“; in Japanese: Daijo zozo kudoku kyo Creation of the Statue a Pious Act; title in manuscript on upper cover: â€œZozo kudoku kyo.â€

161567051615. 14; 13 folding leaves. Two parts in one vol. Large 8vo cont. or later dark wrappers dyed with persimmon juice shibubiki new stitching. Japan probably Kyoto: printed with moveable types ca. 1615-40. A very rare edition printed with moveable types apparently unrecorded in the standard bibliographies of the story â€” or legend â€” of the creation of the first statue of Siddhartha Gautama or Gautama Buddha the founder of Buddhism. The statue executed while Buddha was still alive was commissioned by King Udayana of Kaushambi a contemporary of Buddha. It was the very first image of Buddha and is especially important as it was carved from life. Copies of this statue made their way to China with the spread of Buddhism and later as we shall see to Japan. The text provides a history of the creation of the first statue of Buddha which is perhaps the most famous of all Buddha images. King Udayana commissioned the statue â€œso that he could gaze upon the sacred form of the Buddha while the latter was off preaching to his mother in the heaven of Indra. Buddhaâ€™s disciple Maudgalyayana transported thirty-two craftsmen up to the heavenly realm so that they could observe the special marks of the Buddha firsthand thereby insuring the representational accuracy of the image they created. When the Buddha eventually returned to the earth King Udayanaâ€™s statue rose into the air to greet him of its own accord and the Buddha proclaimed that it would one day help to transmit his teachings.â€â€“Brown ed. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts p. 371. We learn that the statue was carved out of sandalwood and that later copies were made of gold silver bronze lead tin or iron as well as of wood. This text was translated by the Khotanese monk Tiyunbanruo d. 691 or 692 whose original Sanskrit name was Devendraprajna. Khotan was an ancient Iranian Saka Buddhist kingdom on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert near modern-day Xinjiang. Tiyunbanruo came to Luoyang the â€œEastern Capitalâ€ of the Tang dynasty of China in about 688 with a considerable reputation as a Buddhist missionary and set up a bureau to translate Buddhist texts into Chinese. An earlier edition of this text was published in Beijing in 1593 and only one copy is known at the BnF. This book was probably printed and issued as a way to reinforce the legitimacy of the famous Buddha statue of the temple of Seiryoji in the Saga fields of Kyoto. It is one of the chief objects of religious veneration in Kyoto. A copy of the original statue also commissioned by King Udayana was brought from the castle at Kaushambi in north-central India to China by Hsuan-tsang in 645. The statue moved many times and ultimately arrived at Kaifeng the Sung capital. The Japanese monk Chonen 938-1016 who spent the years 983-86 in China studying and collecting texts had worshiped the statue in Kaifeng and commissioned men in 984 to carve a copy to bring back to Japan. The copy was ultimately installed at Seiryoji and according to Japanese tradition the Chinese â€œoriginalâ€ and Chonenâ€™s copy had miraculously changed places â€” the Seiryoji Buddha was actually the authentic example commissioned by Udayana. The Seiryoji Buddha is â€œprobably the most important best-documented and best-preserved sculpture now existing which represents the school and tradition of Buddhist sculpture connected with the sacred Udayana image of the living Buddha of which Hsuan-tsang brought a copy to the court at Châ€™ang-an.â€â€“Henderson & Hurvitz â€œThe Buddha of Seiryoji: New Finds and New Theoryâ€ Artibus Asiae Vol. 19 No. 1 1956 p. 43â€“and see the whole fascinating article. As mentioned above this rare work is printed with moveable types. It was at one time owned by the great Japanese dealer Shigeo Sorimachi. The chitsu has the characteristic handwriting on the label of Sorimachiâ€™s assistant Mr. Mori who has written: â€œZozo kudoku kyo. Genna kanâ€™ei chu kan. Kokatsu banâ€ â€œCreation of the Statue a Pious Act. From Genna to mid-Kanâ€™ei edition ca. 1615-40. Moveable typeâ€. It is not cited by Kazuma Kawase Kokatsuji-ban no kenkyu Study of the Early Typographic Editions of Japan 1967 the definitive bibliography of Japanese moveable type books. There is no copy in WorldCat nor the Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books. In very good condition. The first ten folding leaves which are a little stained have some repaired worming and strengthening. The following leaves have some worming some carefully repaired and others as the worming lessens not repaired. Several characters affected by the worming. As mentioned above the wrappers have been dyed with persimmon juice which serves a dual purpose: to strengthen the paper and act as an insect repellent. â§ Wang Zhenping â€œChonenâ€™s Pilgrimage to China 983-986â€ Asia Major Third Series Vol. 7 No. 2 1994 pp. 63-97. Martha L. Carter The Mystery of the Udayana Buddha Naples: 1990. unknown

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Petiti, Petri [Pierre or Peter Petit 1617- 1687 ]Biblio.com

DE AMAZONIBUS DISSERTATIO .editio secunda

1687V75887Amsterdam: Johann Wolters & Ysrand Haring 1687. Hardcover. engravings in the text 50 1 full-page engraving & 2 woodcut diagrams. 12mo Covers worn and edges damaged and the spine is renewed. Titlepage 3 leaves of dedication 1 leaf of index of chapters 398pp 4pp of addenda 8pp =index Two leaves torn with loss to fore-margin but text intact except for part of 2 words affected. Text is in Latin with propotion of Greek text and there are two founts used in the latin text. The author was a scholar & a medical doctor who was also known as a poet of both latin and french. In trying to prove the existance of Amazons in early times he included references to Christopher Columbus and Amazons in America in the final chapter. This final chapter was not present in the first edition of 1685. Johann Wolters & Ysrand Haring hardcover

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