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"In the second half of the fourteenth and in the fifteenth century there was no more widely read meditation book in the German Language." (CE https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07238c.htm) 573J Henricus Suso. (1295-1366) Horologium aeternae sapientiae. Cologne: Johann Landen, December 1500/1501. Price $15,000 Octavo,... Continue Reading →
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This list does not list any editions of Aristotle, rather it identifies the stress and tension caused by the influence of Aristotle on those constant attempts to ground physics outside of metaphysic pre conceptions. https://jamesgray2.me/2025/10/14/philosophia-mentis-et-sensuum-1698-jesuit-aristotelianism-and-empirical-philosophy/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/12/18/strimesiuss-somatologia-1697/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/12/16/the-history-of-the-royal-society-of-london-1667/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/11/30/888j-defendet-pro-suprma-doctoratus-philosophiciu-very-rare-dissertation-defense-at-the-jesuit-college-in-graz/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/11/16/galileos-starry-messenger-and-keplers-dioptrice-two-of-the-most-important-books-in-early-observational-astronomy/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/09/11/natural-history-the-devils-arse-2/... Continue Reading →
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905 J Francesco Redi 1626-1697 Francisci Redi Nobilis Aretini, Experimenta circa varias res naturales, speciatim illas Quæ ex Indiis afferuntur. Ut & alia ejusdem Opuscula, que paginâ sequenti narrantur. Amstelaedami : Apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1685. Price $3,500 The frontispiece signed by... Continue Reading →
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Francis Bacon’s Advancement of Learning (Oxford, 1640) stands at the threshold of modern science: a systematic re-mapping of human knowledge, richly engraved title and portrait This book is foundational to the empirical worldview that shaped the Royal Society.
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Samuel Strimesius Somatologia Descartes Ralph Cudworth Henry More St. Nicholas Church in Frankfurt apodictica natural philosophy
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Lately I have been reading politically rather than merely substantively. These five books are not neutral texts but artifacts of ideological conflict—where theology, science, law, and human agency collide. Miracles and natural philosophy, nuns and friars, Lutheran reform and political... Continue Reading →
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879J : (Gühler,Martin.). Apocalypsis reserata das ist, geöffnete Offenbarung Johannis darinnen Nach gemachter einteilung der Zeiten deß Newen Testaments in Das Reich des Drachens, Die Statthalterey des Antichrists, Der Ruhige Zustand der Kirchen im Reiche Christi, durch erklärung des XI. und... Continue Reading →
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945J: Connor, Bernardus . Connor, Bernardus, 1666 ?-1698. Evangelium Medici: Seu Medicina Mystica, De Suspensis Naturae Legibus, Sive de Miraculis, Reliquisque ἐν τοῖς βιβλίοις Memoratis, quae Medicae indagini subjici possunt : Ubi perpensis prius Corporis Natura, sano & morboso Corporis Humani Statu,... Continue Reading →
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946J Thomas Sprat The History of the Royal-Society of London, For the Improving of Natural Knowledge. London : printed by T[homas]. R[oycroft]. for J. Martyn at the Bell without Temple-bar, and J. Allestry at the Rose and Crown in Duck-lane,... Continue Reading →
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943J Varet, Alexandre-Louis (1632–1676). The Nunns Complaint against the Fryars. Being the charge given in to the Court of France, by the Nunns of St. Katherine near Provins, against the Fathers Cordeliers their Confessours. Several times printed in French; and... Continue Reading →
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