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Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis Medici, de Subtilitate Libri XXI; Iam Postremo, ab authore plusquam mille locis illustrati, nonnullis etiam cum additionibus. Addita insuper Apologia adversus calumniatorem, qua uis horum liborum aperitur

Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis Medici, de Subtilitate Libri XXI; Iam Postremo, ab authore plusquam mille locis illustrati, nonnullis etiam cum additionibus. Addita insuper Apologia adversus calumniatorem, qua uis horum liborum aperitur

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Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis Medici, de Subtilitate Libri XXI; Iam Postremo, ab authore plusquam mille locis illustrati, nonnullis etiam cum additionibus. Addita insuper Apologia adversus calumniatorem, qua uis horum liborum aperitur

by CARDANO, Girolamo

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Basilae: Sebastianum Henricpetri, 1611. hardcover. very good. Illustrated with a medallion portrait and numerous woodcut diagrams in the text; printer's device on title and verso of final leaf; initials throughout. [80], 1148, [4] pages. Very thick 8vo, old vellum (well-rubbed but sound; spine darkened; 3 blank preliminary pages are replete with contemporary ink notations in Latin, otherwise internally clean). Basilae: Per Sebastianum Henricpetri, 1611. A very nice copy of this uncommon scientific work, with small ownership signature of art historian Meyer Schapiro.<br/><br/> According to professor Schapiro's note, Book IV contains information on painting and colors; Book XVII is on the arts. "Apologia" at end of volume is an answer to Jules-Cesar Scaliger's Exoterimus de subtilitate ad Hieronymum Cardanum, Lutetiae, apud Mich. Vascosan, 1557.<br/><br/>

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Title
Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis Medici, de Subtilitate Libri XXI; Iam Postremo, ab authore plusquam mille locis illustrati, nonnullis etiam cum additionibus. Addita insuper Apologia adversus calumniatorem, qua uis horum liborum aperitur
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CARDANO, Girolamo
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Hardcover
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Sebastianum Henricpetri
Place of Publication
Basilae
Date Published
1611
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Giulio Cesare Scaligero

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Device
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Verso
The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.

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