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Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Cologne: Jodocus Kalcoven, 1643. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Early blind tooled English calf, rebacked, rubbed at edges, corners a little bumped, endpapers and title browned at the edges from the leather turn ins, old ownership marks to front blank, scattered mostly minor browning and staining to pages,a few marginal notes in an early hand, scattered brown spots and a few tiny holes from reading too close by candlelight, lacking the extra engraved title (as often), with 29 plates and 178 text engravings. [28], 797, [39] pp. Ferguson I, 370, Graesse IV 21. One of the most interesting works by the great polymath, Kircher here discusses not only magnetism in its many incarnations, but automatons, tarantulas, and, famously, the attraction of a sunflower to the sun. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Science & Technology; Physics; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045564.

Cologne, Jodocus Kalcoven, 1643.. abditarum naturae motionum in elementis, lapidibus, plantis & animalibus, elucescentium, multa hucusque incognita naturae arcana per physica, medica, chymica & mathematica omnis generis experimenta recluduntur. SECOND EDITION corrected 1643, Latin text, small 4to, approximately 200 x 155 mm, 8 x 5¾ inches, ADDED ENGRAVED TITLE PAGE, plus 29 engraved plates, 1 folding, numerous wood engravings in the text including 3 full page. Pages: [28], 797, [39], bound in contemporary plain vellum, raised bands and faded hand-written title to spine, all edges red. A few dark spots to lower spine, top edge of lower cover has slight loss of vellum, covers just slightly bowed, small 19th century private library label on front pastedown, brief manuscript note about the book on the front endpaper, pale water staining to margins of engraved title page, just entering the image in places, but barely visible, remains of a small wax seal to outer margin of title page, intermittent pale… Read More

[32], 618, [28] pp.The third, last, best and only folio edition, much enlarged, thoroughly revised and with the engraved and many other illustrations newly made for it, of one of the major scientific works of the famous German Jesuit scholar, Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), a truly encyclopedic work on magnetism. Kircher published his first major work, Ars Magnetica, in 1631. Only 63 pages in length, it extensively reports on his invention of a method for measuring magnetic power by means of a balance. The present work on magnetism was for Kircher an omnibus of scientific and also phantastic theories. He researched and measured magnetism in numerous situations and applied it to numerous fields of study, including cosmology, astronomy, geography, optics, electricity, medicine, metallurgy, animals, music, love, etc. He was the first to propose using magnetic declination to determine longitude.With the armorial bookplate of Hyacinth Theodore Baron (1706/07-1787), Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Paris,… Read More