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(SCIENCE.) Kircher, Athanasius, S.J. Physiologia Kircheriana Experimentalis. Edited by Johann Stephan Kestler. Woodcut and engraved text illustrations. [8], 248, [8] pages, including engraved additional title. Folio, 358x232 mm, old boards, worn, lacking backstrip, front cover detached; dark marginal dampstaining through first half of volume, Rush Medical College Library stamp on titles, additional title loose. Amsterdam: officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana, 1680
first edition, published the year of Kircher's death, 'a codification of Kircher's observations and experiments across the entire spectrum of his researches in physics'—Merrill 29. Dünnhaupt, Kircher 34; Garrison-Morton 580 ('includes the first recorded experiment in hypnotism in animals').
