Live auction - Lot 668
[Astronomy]
Meteororum omnium generationis tam hucusque cognitorum, quam utcunque possibilium brevis, ac universalis per nova, certioraque natura principia indagatio [...].
Venice, Fr. Valuasensis, 1662
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
4to: [8]-104 pp. (clear dampstains).
Cont. limp boards.
First edition of this rare cosmographical treatise focusing on comets. The treatise preludes the many Newtonian and non-Newtonian physical theories about comets of which some were part of a larger alchemical or cosmological thinking. Prov. Libr. label.