TODAY: In 1632, Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, the dedicatee, receives the first printed copy of Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.
¶ A public commission, in 1516 was appointed to find a way of ending the interminable strife between rival academic parties, they asked Eck to prepare new commentaries on Aristotle and Peter of Spain. And so in 1516 &... Continue Reading →
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A public commission, in 1516 was appointed to find a way of ending the interminable strife between rival academic parties, they asked Eck to prepare new commentaries on Aristotle and Peter of Spain. And so in 1516 & 1517 he... Continue Reading →
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284J Aristotle , Gualtherus Burlaeus. (Walter Burley (c. 1275–1344/5 )) Expositio Gualteri Burlei super decem Libros Ethicorum Aristotelis (Contains the text of Robert Grosseteste's translation of the Nicomachean Ethics) Venice: Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus, 4 September 1500 ... Continue Reading →
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724J Martialis 724J Martialis Epigrammata. [liber I - XIIII] Venezia, eredi di Aldo Manuzio e Andrea Torresano, 1517. $4,000. Octavo, 16 x 9.5 cm. A-Z8, ($4) &8 (& 8 blank & genuine) The leaves 164 and 165 placed after the leaf 140. Roman and... Continue Reading →
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Lefèvre d'Etaples, Jacques; Lefèvre d'Etaples, Jacques Faber Stapulensis, Jacobus (i.e. Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples) (1455-1536) Iacobi Fabri Stapulensis De Maria Magdalena, & triduo Christi, disceptatio, Concionatoribus verbi Divini adprime utils. Hagenoæ : ex Neocademia Anshelmiana : (typis ac formulis Thomæ Anshelmi... Continue Reading →
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457J George Wharton (1617-1681) & ed. John Gadbury, , 1627-1704 The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir, Bar. Collected into one entire volume. By John Gadbury, student in physick and astrology. Contents:The festivals and fasts of... Continue Reading →
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from 1520- 1480 descending. 176J Phlip Melanchthon Declamatiuncula in D. Pauli doctrinam : Epistola ad Iohannem Hessum theologum Vuittenbergae [i.e. Wittenberg] : Apud Melchiorem Lottherum iuniorem, 1520 $4,500 Quarto 7 ¼ x 5 ¼ inches. A-B4, C6.This is bound in modern boards with a sheepskin spine. To... Continue Reading →
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The Polemo-Middinia is the most Outstanding of British Macaronic poems. Drummond subjected Scots dialect to Latin grammatical rules. "A remarkable anomaly in the Scottish print culture of the period, the poem's appearance in the years of 'the troubles' sheds new... Continue Reading →
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