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Books and Manuscripts
Selected Pre-Eighteenth Century Works: A
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Accademia del cimento.
Essayes of natural experiments made in the Academie del cimento, under the protection of the most serene prince Leopold of Tuscany. Written in Italian by the secretary of that academy. Englished by Richard Waller. London, Printed for Benjamin Alsop at the Angel and Bible in the Poultrey, over-against the Church, 1684.
[24], 160 (i.e. 164), [10] p. 19 plates. 23.8 cm.
Provenance: Royal Meteorological Society, Symons Bequest, 1900 (bookplate; release sticker)
In Ronalds, Wheeler 196.
Reports the research of the first scientific society; includes experiments on magnets and on amber, and on other electric bodies.
Aetius, of Amida.
Contractae ex veteribvs medicinae tetrabiblos, hoc est qvaternio, id est libri uniuersales quatuor, singuli quatuor sermones complectetes, ut sint in summa quatuor sermonum quaterniones, id est sermones XVI, per Ianum Cornarium cum Latin e conscripti. Basileae, Froben, 1542.
[12], 932, [32] p. 32.5 cm.
Signatures: à6, a-z6, A-Z6, Aa-ZZ6, AA-HH6, II4, KK-LL8.
Colophon: Excusum Basileae, impensis Hier. Frobenii, et Nic. Episcopii, Mense Septembri, M.D.XLII.
Encyclopedia of medical information from ca. 540 A.D.; includes mention of medical uses of lodestone.
Affaytatus, Fortunius.
Ad. Paulum. III. pontificem fortunatissimum optimum maximumq;, Fortunij Affaytati phisici, atq; Theologi, phisicae ac astronomicae cosiderationes. Quarum catalogus versa pagina conspicitur. Venetiis, Nicolaum de Bascarinis, 1549.
35, [1] l. 15.5 cm.
Signatures: A-D8, E4.
Colophon: Venetiis impressum apud Nicolaum de Bascarinis. MDXLIX.
Wheeler 27.
Contains two sections on the magnet, one of which covers why the magnet turns to the pole and is cited as the discovery of magnetic dip.
Albertus Magnus, Saint, bp. of Ratisbon, 1193?-1280.
De mineralibus. [Padua, Petrus Maufer for Antonius de Albricis, 20 September, 1476]
[28] l. 42.3 cm.
Bound with (as issued?) Gaietanus de Thienis. Expositio in libros Aristotelis meteororum. [Padua, 1476]
Wheeler 8 (1519)
Contributions to the knowledge of minerals by one of modern sciences most significant precursors.
[Alence, Joachim d'] -1707?
Traitté de l'aiman. Divisé en deux parties. La prémiére contient les expÇriences; & la seconde les raisons que l'on en peut rendre, par Mr. D***. A Amsterdam, Chez H. Wetstein, 1687. [20], 140, [8] p. 33 plates. 15 cm.
Provenance: Harrison D. Horblit (bookplate); copy 2, Royal Meteorological Society Symons Bequest 1900 (bookplate); copy 3, Ex Libris D: Rob: Throckm: (inscription)
Gartrell 10.
Reviews historically what was known about the magnet and its uses; discusses experiments on the magnet.
Apuleius Barbarus.
De herbarvm virtutibus.
l. 15-34. 29.2 cm.
(In Galenus. Liber de plenitudine. Prostant in vico, 1528.)
Aristoteles.
De natura animalium. De partibus animalium. De generatione animalium. Interprete Theodoro Gaza. [Venice, Bartholomaeus de Zanis for Octavianus Scotus, 1498]
[6], 89 l. 32 cm.
Signatures: a-p6, q5.
Colophon: Impraessum Venetiis mandato & expensis nobilis viri Domini Octaviani Scoti Ciuis Modoetialis. Die. viiii. Augusti. 1498. per Bartholameuum de Zanis de Portesio.
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