Author
Bruno, Giordano, 1548-1600
Title
Iordani Bruni Nolani De monade numero et figura liber consequens quinque de minimo magno & mensura. : Item De innumerabilibus, immenso, & infigurabili; seu De uniuerso & mundis libri octo ...
Varying form of title
Portion of title: De monade numero et figura liber consequens quinque de minimo magno & mensura
Varying form of title
Iordani Brvni Nolani De monade nvmero et figura liber consequens quinque de minimo magno & mensura
Varying form of title
De monade nvmero et figura liber consequens quinque de minimo magno & mensura
Physical description
[24], 655, [1] pages : illustrations ; 16 cm (8vo)
Note
Title vignette; head and tail pieces; decorated initials.
Note
Numerous woodcut diagrams within text.
Note
Signatures: ):(⁸ *⁴ A-2S⁸
Citation/references note
Riccardi, Pietro. Biblioteca matematica italiana, I, 200
Citation/references note
Lawn, Brian. Catalogus Bibliothecae Lawnianae, p. 39
Citation/references note
Adams, B2948
Citation/references note
CLC, B2498
Provenance
Pressmark of Seth Ward (1617-1689) on first free upper endleaf and on turn-in of upper board: B:6:1. There is a list in Ward's hand of the three works contained in this volume on the verso of the 2nd free upper endleaf, and each work has been numbered on the title page (1), (2), (3).
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Binding
Late 16th- or early 17th-century dark brown calf over paper boards; sewn on four tawed leather supports; boards decorated with three blind fillets forming a rectangular frame towards perimeter of boards; spine has four raised bands and blind horizontal fillets.
Copy-specific note
"Jo. Sp." is written on the second free upper endleaf. This may be a previous ownership inscription.
Copy-specific note
Bound with: (b) Bruno, De triplici minimo et mensura ad trium speculativarum scientiarum & multarum activarum artium principia, libri V (Frankfurt am Main, 1591); and (c) Bruno, De imaginum, signorum, & idearum compositione (Frankfurt am Main, 1591).
Subject
Atomism Early works to 1800.
Subject
Mathematics Philosophy Early works to 1800.
Subject
Philosophy, Renaissance Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Wechel, Johann, -1593 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Fischer, Peter, -1595 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Ward, Seth, 1617-1689 former owner.
Added entry--name
Johann Wechel und Peter Fischer (Firm) bookseller.
Added entry--place
Germany Frankfurt am Main
B13722
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