Exotericarum exercitationum liber XV, De subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum. In fine duo sunt indices: prior breviusculus, continens sententias nobiliores: alter opulentissimus, pene omnia complectens.

SCALIGER, J.C.

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Frankfurt, Claudia Marnius & heirs of Ioannes Abrius, 1607. 8vo. [xvi],1130[=1140],[90],[1=impressum] pp. With some woodcut ills in the text. Laced vellum, boards with gilt filets; modern title shield on spine. (front board a bit chafed; a few old (not contemporary?) annotations; a few (water) spots; small hole in p. 249 (a few letters text loss); some quires a bit browned; p.645-652 with some worming in lower corner; tear in one leaf) - Early seventeenth-century edition (first 1557) of this important, fierce refutation of Girolamo Cardano's De subtilitate rerum (1550).

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• Title: Exotericarum exercitationum liber XV, De subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum. In fine duo sunt indices: prior breviusculus, continens sententias nobiliores: alter opulentissimus, pene omnia complectens.
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