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Paper manuscript of hundreds of pages, written by a single hand in Latin, datable to the end of the 17th century - mid-18th century, 265 x 200 mm., divided into various sections, corrections in the text and additions in the margins, numerous scientific drawings on the margins, the last leaves worn on the lower white margin without loss of text, full brown leather binding from the 19th century with title on the spine, in gold letters.
Specialist Notes
Incipit: "Dissertatio 8.a De Elementis Aere Igne Aqua ac Terra"; the final part contains a "Tractatus de Sacramentis".
INTRIGUING LATE 17TH CENTURY SCIENTIFIC MANUSCRIPT, a working copy given the amount of corrections, revisions, additions in the margins and in the body of writing, richly illustrated with geometric figures physical, mechanical, etc. An author has not been identified but several are mentioned in the text, including Niccolò Cabeo (1586-1650), Jesuit philosopher, famous mathematician, engineer and physicist.
Everything to be studied.
INTRIGUING LATE 17TH CENTURY SCIENTIFIC MANUSCRIPT, a working copy given the amount of corrections, revisions, additions in the margins and in the body of writing, richly illustrated with geometric figures physical, mechanical, etc. An author has not been identified but several are mentioned in the text, including Niccolò Cabeo (1586-1650), Jesuit philosopher, famous mathematician, engineer and physicist.
Everything to be studied.
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