In-8� (175x108mm), pp. (16), 1076, (84) di indici, legatura coeva p. pergamena con titolo calligrafato anticamente al dorso. Al frontespizio, impresa editoriale incisa su legno con Pegaso in volo sopra due cornucopie incrociate ed un caduceo tenuto da mani uscenti da nembi. Testatine e iniziali onate in xilografia. Antiche note di possesso parzialmente cassate al risguardo e al frontespizio. Diffuse bruniture, fisiologiche nei libri tedeschi di et� barocca, ma bell'esemplare. Ristampa secentesca della celebre critica dello Scaligero al De Subtilitate cardaniano, opera in cui il celebre medico e filosofo descriveva e catalogava tutti i problemi inerenti alla sottilit� della materia. riconoscendovi molti errori sia concettuali che empirici, decise di intervenire a correggerli. Le osservazioni. contengono giuste derisioni delle false credenze o delle superstizioni dell'avversario, ma anche professioni di fede altrettanto ingenue e grossolane in principi scientifici del tutto irreali (Patrizi, Scrittori Padovani, II, p. 430). Il libro dello Scaligero era apparso per la prima volta nel 1557. Giulio Cesare Scaligero (Riva del Garda, 1484-Agen, Garonna, 1558) fu critico, grammatico, medico e naturalista. La sua notevole produzione comprende una satira indirizzata contro il Ciceronianus di Erasmo, oggetto di molte sue requisitorie, un De plantis, studio sull teorie botaniche teofrastiane, questo De Subtilitate, relativo a Gerolamo Cardano, e, soprattutto, la Poetica, uno dei principali testi del fervido dibattito culturale del Rinascimento intorno alle idee estetiche di Aristotele, destinato a larga eco in Italia e in Francia. VD17 1:068696Y. Wheeler Gift, I, 79. Bibliotheca Sudhoffiana, 1159. Una sola copia in SBN / ICCU, alla Bertoliana di Vicenza, mutilo dei fascicoli 2Y-3C8 3D4. Latino.

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Iulii Caesaris Scaligeri Exotericarum Exercitationum Liber XV De Subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum

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Typis Wecheliani, sumptibus Clementis Scleichii., Hanoviae

Publication Date

1634

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Galleria Gilibert antiquarian bookshop was opened in 1992 by the late Alfredo Gilibert, great bibliophile and collector throughout his life of all forms of art on paper. His son Massimo now owns and runs the bookshop and continues the family tradition of locating and providing books and prints to collectors around the world. Galleria Gilibert has been a member of L.I.L.A. since 1997. The bookshop occupies two floors in the magnificent gallery Galleria Subalpina in the heart of Turin, between two of the city's most important squares: Piazza Castello and Piazza Carlo Alberto. It is very close to the Biblioteca Reale, the famous Egyptian museum, and the Galleria Sabauda.

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