DE SECRETIS NATURAE SIVE QUINTA ESSENTIA LIBRIS DUO. HIS ACCESSERUNT ALBERTI MAGNI SUMMI PHILOSOPHI, DE MINERALIBUS eamp; REBUS METALLICIS LIBRI QUINQUE.

Published by Petrum Schoeffer Germanum Maguntinum, Venezia, 1542

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Legatura in piena pergamena coeva rigida, autore e titolo manoscritto al dorso; tagli blu. Mancanza della carta di sguardia anteriore. 324 - (8) pagine numerate, grande marca tipografica in finee8 illustrazioni per lo più di alambicchi silografate nel testo.Seconda edizione (la prima di Strasburgo nel 1541) di questo rarissimo trattato alchemico inizialmente attribuito al filosofo maiorchino Ramon Llull. La critica moderna, tra cui la studiosa Frances Yates e John Ferguson, considera l`opera un testo apocrifo del XIV secolo composto dopo la morte di Lullus da un autore anonimo. Secondo Ferguson, le opere di chimica stampate sotto il nome di Lullus non sono da considerarsi autentichee anche questo lavoro viene oggi descritto come \"Pseudo-Lullo\". La prima parte dell`opera consiste nell`adattamento del \"De consideratione quinta essentiae\"di Joannes de Rupescissa, uno dei più importanti testi alchemici sulla quinta essenza. La seconda parte, di certa attribuzione al filosofo tedesco domenicano Alberto Magnus, \"De mineralibus eamp; rebus metallicis\", è una fra le più celebri opere sui metalli, metallurgia e chimica. Cfr. DSB: \"He seems to have experimented with alchemy and is said to have been the first to isolate the element arsenic. He compiled a list of some hundred minerals, giving the properties of each. During his many travels, he made frequent sidetrips to mines and excavations in search of specimens. He was acquainted with fossils, and made accurate observations of `animal impressions` and improved on Avicenna`s account of their formation. Albert suggested the possibility of the transmutation of metals, but he did not feel that alchemists had yet found the method to bring this about\". Esemplare in buono stato conservativo, alcune antiche chiose manoscritte, sporadiche macchie e fioriture.…

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Title
DE SECRETIS NATURAE SIVE QUINTA ESSENTIA LIBRIS DUO. HIS ACCESSERUNT ALBERTI MAGNI SUMMI PHILOSOPHI, DE MINERALIBUS eamp; REBUS METALLICIS LIBRI QUINQUE.
Author
LLULL Ramòn, Beato (1232-1315) [Pseudo-Lullo] - MAGNUS Albertus (?-1280)
Publisher
Petrum Schoeffer Germanum Maguntinum, Venezia
Publication year
1542
Dimensions
2 parti in un volume. In-8° (mm155x105)

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Gallery in the central of Turin since 1985. We publish an annual selected catalogue. Specialist in rare antique books, incunabola, Renaissance, italian books, antique prints, old master prints, napoletan guaches.

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