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DENSELY ANNOTATED COPY GHERARDO, da Cremona, attributed to. Géomance Astronomique . . . pour scavoir les Choses Passées, les Presentées. et les Futures . . . Seconde Édition. Woodcut text diagrams. [10], 208 pages. Small 8vo, modern vellum; diagram caption cropped in outer margin on page 186. Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1662
Second edition of a French version by Luc-Antoine de Salerne first published the year before. "Gerard [1114-87] of Cremona was the most prolific translator of scientific and philosophical works from Arabic in the Middle Ages. He also has been credited with a few 'original' works in the same fields, although these attributions are less certain" (DSB). DSB XV, 173 and 186; Sarton II, 344.
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