Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410
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Sale 2410 - Lot 172

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(MANUSCRIPT.) Physica Generalis [Specialis]. illustrated manuscript in latin, written in neat cursive hand in black ink, recto and verso, on laid paper. illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings and diagrams, and extra-illustrated with contemporary engraved portraits of Thales, Aristotle, Archimedes, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Descartes, and Tycho Brahe. 537 and 444 pages. 2 volumes. 171x111 mm, modern 1/2 calf; marginal dampstaining toward end of second volume. [France]: "scripta a me Roberto Le Blond," 1707
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Digest of natural philosophy providing responses to anticipated opposing viewpoints on the topics covered. The first volume deals with general physics and geometry. The first part of the second volume deals with the solar system, the Ptolemaic, Tychonian, and Copernican models, gravity, meteorology, geology, geography, chemistry, mineralogy, and magnetism; the second part, with plant, animal, and human life, and anatomy and physiology.