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Selected Pre-Eighteenth Century Works: G
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Gaietanus de Thienis, 1387-1465.
Expositio in libros Aristotelis meteororum. [Padua, Petrus Maufer, 6 August, 1476]
[62] l. 42.3 cm.
With this is bound (as issued?) Albertus Magnus. De mineralibus. [Padua, 1476]
Hain 15506; Goff G-30.
Galenus.
... Liber de plenitudine. Polybvs De salubri victus ratione priuatorum. Gvinterio Ioanne Andernaco interprete. Apvleivs Platonicvs De herbarvm uirtutibus. Antonii Benivenii Libellvs de abditis nonnullis ac mirandis morboru & sanationum causis. Prostant in vico, Iacobaeo, Apud C. VVechel, 1528.
42, 21, [1] l. 29.2 cm.
Bound with Celsus, A.C. De re medica libri octo. Parisiis, 1529.
Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565.
[Conradi Gesneri] Historiae animalium liber IIII qui est de piscium & aquatilium animantium natura. Cvm iconibus singvlorvm ad vivvm expressis fere omnib. DCCVI. Continentur in hoc volumine, Gvlielmi Rondeletii ... & Petri Bellonii ... de aquatilium singulis scripta. Tigvri, apud C. Froschoverum, 1558.
[39], 1297 p. woodcuts. 39.5 cm.
Signatures: a-b6, c8, a-z6, A-Z6, Aa-Zz6, aa-zz6, AA-PP6, QQ7.
Illustrates the torpedo and other electric fish.
Gilbert, William, 1540-1603.
[Gvilielmi Gilberti] ... De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; physiologia noua, plurimis & argumentis, & experimentis demonstrata. Londini, excvdebat P. Short, 1600.
[16], 240 p. woodcut illus., fold. plate. 28.5 cm.
Signatures: *8, A-V6.
In Ronalds, Wheeler 72, Gartrell 202.
Separated experimentally the amber effect from magnetism and is thus said to have established electricity as a science; proposed an explanation of magnetic phenomenon that was based on the earth as a giant lodestone.
Gilbert, William, 1540-1603.
Tractatvs siue Physiologia nova De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs et magno magnete tellure sex libris comprehensus â Guilielmo Gilberto. In quibus ea, quae ad hanc materiam spectant plurimis & argumentis ac experimentis exactissime absolutissimÇq tractantur et explicantur. Omnia nunc diligenter recognita & emendatius quam ante in lucem edita, aucta & figuris illustrata opera & studio Wolfgangi Lochmans. Ad calcem libri adjunctus est Index capitum rerum et verborum locupletissimus. Excvsvs Sedini, typis Gotziams, Sumptibus I. Hallervordij, 1628.
[19], 232, [33] p. illus., 12 plates (part fold) 21.5 cm.
In Ronalds, Gartrell 203.
Remaindered sheets identified, according to Roller, by the use of 'Ioh. Hallervordij' on the title page instead of 'authoris.'
Gilbert, William, 1540-1603.
Tractatus, sive Physiologia nova De magnete, magneticisq; corporibus & magno magnete tellure, sex libris comprehensus, a Guilielmo Gilberto. In quibus ea, quae ad hanc materiam spectant, plurimis & argumentis & experimentis exactissime absolutissimequae tractantur & explicantur. Omnia nunc diligenter recognita, & emendatius quam ante in lucem edita, aucta & figuris illustrata, opera & studio Wolfgangi Lochmans. Ad calcem libri adiunctus est Index capitum, rerum & verborum locupletissimus, qui inpriore editione desiderabatur. Sedini, Typis Gotzianis, 1633. [19], 232, [34] p. illus., 12 plates (part fold.) 24.8 cm.
In Ronalds, Wheeler 72a, Gartrell 204.
Giovio, Paulo, bp. of Nocera, 1483-1552.
[Pavli Iovii Novocomensis] De piscibvs marinis, lacvstribvs, flvviatilibvs, item de testaceis ad salsamentis liber. Romae, Ex aedibvs F. Minitii Calvi, 1527.
[87] p. 19.5 cm.
Signatures: A-G4, h-l4.
Colophon: Romae ex aedibus F. Minitii Calvi. Anno. M.D.XXVII Mense Aprili.
Provenance: Capuchin Friars of Palermo (ink stamp)
Glisson, Francis, 1597-1677.
Tractatus de ventriculo et intestinis. Cui praemittitur alius, de partibus continentibus in genere; & in specie, de iis abdominis. Authore Francisco Glissonio. Londini, Typis E.F. Prostat venalis apud H. Brome, 1677.
[32], 509, [3] p. 3 fold. plates, port. 23 cm.
Goclenius, Rodolph, 1572-1621.
De magnetica vulnerum curatione, citra ullam superstitionem, dolorem, & remedii etiam applicationem, tractatus, mirandarum & in natura hactenus occultarum rerum causas patefaciens. Accessit in fine oratio de luxoriosis & prodigiosis nostri aevi coviviis, eorumq; origine autoribus & asseclis, lectu utnec indigna, sic nec injucunda. Autore Rod. Gocl. [n.p.] 1613. 310 p. 13 cm.
Goclenius, Rodolph, 1572-1621.
Mirabilium naturae liber, concordias et repvgnantias rervm in plantis, animalibvs, animalivmque morbis & partibus, manifestans, nunc primo in lucem datus a Rodolpho Goclenio. Adiecta est in fine breuis & noua defensio magneticae curationis vulnerum ex solidis principiis. Francofvrti, Egenolphi Emmelii, Impensis I.C. Vnckelii, 1625.
[15], 303 p. 15.2 cm.
In Ronalds.
Contains a defense of the magnetic cure of wounds.
Goclenius, Rodolph, 1572-1621.
Vranoscopiae, chiroscopiae, metoposcopiae, et ophthalmoscopiae, contemplatio, qua probatur, diuinationem ex astris, lineisq; manuþ, frþte, facie & oculis nec impian esse nec superstitiosam. Ed. nova: cui accessit totius Physiognomie solida ex causis & effectis demonstratio. Francofurti, Impensis J.T. Schonwett, 1608.
290 p. illus. 12 cm.
Provenance: CW Jones, Needham, Mass. (inscription)
[Gott, Samuel], 1614-1671.
The divine history of the genesis of the world, explicated & illustrated. London, Printed by E.C. & A.C. for H. Eversden, 1670.
[4], 497 p. 20.2 cm.
Provenance: George Bishop from ABA June 1670 (inscription)
Guericke, Otto von, 1602-1686.
[Ottonis de Guericke] Experimenta nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de vacua spatio. Primùm à R.P. Gaspare Schotto, è Societate Jesu, & herbipolitanae academiae matheseos professore: nunc verò ab ipso auctore. Perfectiùs edita, variisque aliis experimentis aucta. Quibus accesserunt simul certa quaedam de aëris pondere circa terram; de virtutibus mundanis, & systemate mundi planetario; sicut & de stellis fixis, ac spatio illo immenso, quod tàm intra quam extra eas funditur. Amstelodami, apud J. Janssonium Ö Waesberge, 1672. [17], 244, [5] p. illus., charts, plates (part fold.), port. 32.5 cm.
Provenance: From the books of E.N. da C. Andrade, Fellow of the Royal Society (bookplate); copy 2, Zollikon (bookplate)
In Ronalds, Wheeler 170, Gartrell 222.
Credited with inventing the first electrical machine, his sulphur sphere.
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