Search Results: magnes sive de arte magnetica opus by kircher athanasius

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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