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Books and Manuscripts
Selected Pre-Eighteenth Century Works: L
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Lacinio, Giano.
Praeciosa ac nobilissima artis chymiae collectanea de occultissimo ac praeciosissimo philosophorum lapide, per Ianum Lacinium ... Nunc primum in lucem aedita cum totius libelli capitum indice. Norimbergae, apud G. Hayn, 1554.
[8], 124 l. woodcut front. 20 cm.
Signatures: a-b4, A-Z4, Aa-Hh4.
With this is bound Petrus Peregrinus, of Maricourt. De magnete, seu rota perpetui motus, libellus. Augsburg, 1558.
[Leurechon, Jean] 1591-1670.
Mathematicall recreations. Or a collection of many problemes, extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers, as secrets and experiments in arithmetick, geometry, cosmographie, horologiographie, astronomie, navigation, musick, opticks, architecture, statik, mechanicks, chemistry, water-works, fireworks, &c. Not vulgarly manifest till now. Written first in Greeke and Latin, lately compi'ld in French, by Henry Van Etten, and now in English, with the examinations and augmentations of divers modern mathematicians. Whereunto is added the description and use of the generall horologicall ring: and the double horizontall diall, invented and written by William Oughtred. London, Printed for W. Leake, 1653.
[40], 286, [1], [16] p. illus., diagrs. 16.4 cm.
Lorenzini, Stefano, fl. 1678.
Osservazioni intorno alle torpedini, fatte da Stefano Lorenzini Fiorentino. In Firenze per l'Onofri, 1678.
[8], 136 p. 5 plates. 25.2 cm.
In Ronalds.
Considered the first work on the torpedo and the first work devoted to a single fish.
Ludolf, Hiob, 1624-1704.
A new history of Ethiopia. Being a full and accurate description of the kingdom of Abessinia. Vulgarly, though erroneously, called the Empire of Prester John. In four books, Wherein are contained, I. An account of the nature, quality, and condition of the country; and inhabitants; their mountains, metals, and minerals; their rivers, (particularly, of the source of the Nile and Niger;) their birds, beasts, amphibious animals, (as the river-horse and crocodile;) serpents, &c. II. Their political government; the genealogy and succession of their kings; a description of their court, and camp; their power, and military discipline; their courts of justice, &c. III. Their ecclesiastical affairs; their conversion to the Christian religion, and the propagation thereof, their sacred writings, their sacraments, rites, ceremonies, and church-discipline; the decrease of the Romish religion, their contentions with the Jesuits, their separation from the Greek Church, &c. IV. Their private oeconomy, their books and learning, their common names, their diet, marriages, and polygamies; their mechanick arts and trades; their buriels; their merchandize and commerce, &c., by Job Ludolphus. 2nd ed. to which is added, a new and exact map of the country; as also, a preface, shewing the usefulness of this history; with the life of Gregorious Abba; and the author's opinion of some other writers concerning Ethiopia. Translated out of his learned manuscript commentary on this history. Made English by J.P. London, Printed for S. Smith, 1684.
[38], 88, 151-398 p. 10 fold. plates (incl. map) 34 cm.
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