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Philoponus, Joannes Grammaticus (490-570 CE) In Procli Diadochi Duodeviginti Argumenta. De Mundi Aeternitate.
Lyon: Nicolaus Edoard, 1557.
First edition, folio, translated from Greek to Latin by Joannes Mahotius; printer's woodcut device to title, bound in full contemporary parchment over boards, worn; stain to title page and following leaves, first and last few signatures becoming detached from the sewing structure, 13 x 8 1/2 in.
Writing in opposition to Aristotelian physics, our author, also known as John the Grammarian, supports Christian creationism against the arguments of the Athenian Neoplatonist Proclus.
