Sundials, Sundials--Early works to 1800, QB215 .B46 1574
Numerous woodcut diagrams, some full page. Arms of the dedicatee, Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy on t.p. Historiated and decorated initials. Erra... Show moreNumerous woodcut diagrams, some full page. Arms of the dedicatee, Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy on t.p. Historiated and decorated initials. Errata, leaf 123v. Main Heritage Shelves General QB215 .B46 1574 Book Item-ID: i21961475 BIB-ID: 2346972 Show less
Iano Matthaeo Durastante, medico, ac philosopho; Sanctoiustano; oculatissimo, ac diligentissimo; censore. (AVICENNA). MONTE, Giovanni Battista da,... Show moreIano Matthaeo Durastante, medico, ac philosopho; Sanctoiustano; oculatissimo, ac diligentissimo; censore. (AVICENNA). MONTE, Giovanni Battista da, commentator. In primi lib. canonis primam fen, profundissima commentaria. Adiecto ... de membris capite. Iano Matthaeo Durastante ... censore. Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi and Balthassar Constantini, 1557. Small 8vo, 2l + 1t + 1 + 9 (preface) + 21 (index) + 651 + 1 + 2l, with printer's device on title, repeated at colophon, three attractive woodcut intials at the beginning; some contemporary marginalia and underlining; a fine copy of contemporary limp vellum; inner hinge broken. Second edition (first 1554) of Da Monte's commentaries on Booke one, fen 1, of the Cannon of Avicenna, edited by Gian Matteo Durastante with the addition of De membris (mentioned on the title), De facultatibus and De virtutibus naturalibus ministrantibus (not mentioned on the title). These additions in fact complete the first fen, the whole comprising the philosophical foundation of Avicenna's entire system of medicine. Da Monte was professor of medicine at the university of Padua, where in 1465 a statue was passed mandating the teaching of the whole of Book I of the Canon. During 3273 (imperfect); NUC records four other locations, New York Academy of Medicine, Cornell, and two at Yale; the earliest edition in the Wellcome Library is 1558; this edition not in the British Library. May have been issued with the editions of Monte's commentaries on other parts of the Canon published in Venice under the same imprint between 1556 and 1557. The newly added chapter De membris (p. 553-605) is followed by 2 others: De facultatibus and De virtutibus naturalibus ministrantibus. Corrected and enlarged edition of the work previously edited by W. Lublin and published in Venice in 1554. Printer's device with inscription "Vincent" on t.p. and repeated on leaf 2S6v. Signatures: *-2*⁸ A-2S⁸ (2S7-8 blank). Includes index. Woodcut initials. Main Heritage Shelves General R128.3 .M66 1557 Book Item-ID: i10106674 BIB-ID: 1012303 Show less
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā , 865?-925?, Liber nonus ad Almansorem, Medicine, Medicine--Early works to 1800, History, Medieval, Medicine, Arabic, Z1033.M5 M35 1554
A Valentino Lublino Polono, medicis posteritatíque eorum fideliter communicata . Printer's device with motto "Nulla sine laborem est virtus" on t.p. ... Show moreA Valentino Lublino Polono, medicis posteritatíque eorum fideliter communicata . Printer's device with motto "Nulla sine laborem est virtus" on t.p. Woodcut initials. Includes index. Show less
Mathematics, Greek, Mathematics, Greek--Early works to 1800, Conic sections, Conic sections--Early works to 1800, QA31 .A66 1661
APOLLONIUS of Perga. Conicorum Lib. V. VI. VII. paraphraste Abalphato Asphahanensi nunc primum editi. Additus in calce Archimedis assumptorum liber... Show moreAPOLLONIUS of Perga. Conicorum Lib. V. VI. VII. paraphraste Abalphato Asphahanensi nunc primum editi. Additus in calce Archimedis assumptorum liber ex codicibus Arabicis Mss ... Abrahamus Ecchellensis Latinos ... reddidit ... Io. Alfonsus Borellus ... notas uberiores in universum opus adiecit. Florence, Joseph Cocchini 1661. Tall 4to, 1lea. (bin.) + 1tit. + 1 + 1tit. + 1 + 8 + 8 + 8 pref. + 6 + 2 ind. + 2 cont. + 415 + 1 + 1 lea. (bin.), title printed in red and black, numerous diagrams throughout; a magnificient copy, entirely uncut; modern culf backed marbled boards. First edition of the Ecchelensis translations of both works, the first published version of Books V - VII of Apollonius's Conics, which only survive in the Arabic version of Abu 'l-Fath al-Isfahani, based on the translation of Thabit ibn Qurra. Apollonius introduced the terms ellipse, parabola and hyperbola. The first four books of the Conics "probably contain little that was not alreay known ... Books V - VII seen to contain the discoveries which he himself had made" (Smith, History of mathematics, I, p. 117). These books were presumed lost (the eighth is still lost) until Borelli discovered an Arabic manuscript in the Medici library in Florence. Abraham Ecchelensis was a Maronite, born in Syria, who died in Rome 1664. He was professor of Arabic and Syriac in Rome and Paris. The Archimedes was translated from another Arabic manuscript in the Medici library, a translation from the Greek by Thabit ibn Qurra: as with the Apollonius, the Greek original of this text does not survive. For Apollonius see Sezgin, V, pp. 139-43; for Thabit ibn Qurra see Seagin, V. pp. 264-274. Norman 58; Riccardi I, 158, 5 ("Bella edizione, ed assai ricercata"). Main Heritage Shelves General QA31 .A66 1661 Book Item-ID: i1007420x BIB-ID: 1009056 Reliure aux armes de Marc-Antoine Mazenod et ex-libris ms. du Collège de la Trinité de Lyon. Fr693836101: Rés 107475 Reliure parchemin armoriée. Fr693836101: Rés 107475 Show less
