LEMNIUS, Levinus. De gli occulti miracoli, & varii ammaestramenti delle cose della natura, con probabili ragioni, et artificiosa congiettura confermati. Venezia, Lodovico Avanzo, 1563.
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8vo, mm. 145x100; Binding in light blue boards: leaves [15], 1 bl, 156. Notes on the margins.
RARE ITALIAN EDITION of this important book of 'secrets'.
The work deals with the mysterious phenomena: wonders of nature, popular beliefs, traditions on the 'simple'; contains a number of curious observations of pharmacy and natural philosophy, on plants, on buds, on the generation on foods, wines, etc. Particularly interesting is the section on nutrition.
Ferguson : “The collection is a very curious one..., and furnishes good instances of popular ideas about natural things current three hundred years ago.” Il medico e astrologo olandese, che si laureò a Padova, fu allievo di Vesalio e amico di Gesner. La presente traduzione è basata sulla PRIMA EDIZIONE olandese, che conteneva solo due libri.
Ferguson, Books of Secrets, I, p. 10. Cfr. Thorndike, VI, 393; Ferguson, Bibl. Chemica, pp. 22-24; Durling n. 2779; Duveen, 349.
Fine specimen.
RARE ITALIAN EDITION of this important book of 'secrets'.
The work deals with the mysterious phenomena: wonders of nature, popular beliefs, traditions on the 'simple'; contains a number of curious observations of pharmacy and natural philosophy, on plants, on buds, on the generation on foods, wines, etc. Particularly interesting is the section on nutrition.
Ferguson : “The collection is a very curious one..., and furnishes good instances of popular ideas about natural things current three hundred years ago.” Il medico e astrologo olandese, che si laureò a Padova, fu allievo di Vesalio e amico di Gesner. La presente traduzione è basata sulla PRIMA EDIZIONE olandese, che conteneva solo due libri.
Ferguson, Books of Secrets, I, p. 10. Cfr. Thorndike, VI, 393; Ferguson, Bibl. Chemica, pp. 22-24; Durling n. 2779; Duveen, 349.
Fine specimen.
