Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia :
in duo volumnina secundum cosmi differentiam diuisa /
authore Roberto Flud aliàs Fluctibus, armigero, & in medicina doctore oxeniensi.

Description

Main Author

Fludd, Robert, 1574-1637

Related Names

Galler, Hieronymus, printer.
Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650, engraver.
Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623, engraver,

Language(s)

Latin

Published

Oppenhemii : aere Johan-Theodori de Bry, typis Hieronymi Galleri, anno MDCXVII-[MDCXXIV] [1617-1624]

Subjects

Wetenschappen.
Music theory.
Machinery.
Geometry.
Cosmology.
Astrology.
Arithmetic.
02.00 science and culture in general.
Music theory > Music theory / Early works to 1800.
Arithmetic > Arithmetic / Early works to 1900.
Machinery > Machinery / Early works to 1800.
Astrology > Astrology / Early works to 1800.
Geometry > Geometry / Early works to 1800.
Cosmology > Cosmology / Early works to 1800.
Surveys (form)
Early works.

Note

Advertisment for volume 2: volume 1, pages 785-788.
Includes errata (volume 2, page 10).
Includes indexes.
Engraved title page; head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Leaves of plates (some folded) included in pagination; numerous errors in pagination.
Pagination: volume 1: [2], 106 [i.e. 206], [6], 276, [2], 277-788, [10] pages; volume 2: [2], 277, 191, [11], [12], 199 pages.
Signatures: volume 1: [pi]¹ ***¹ B-2B⁴, 2C⁶ ²A-2M⁴ (2M2+1), 2N-3G⁴, 3H², 3I-5H⁴ (-5H4).
Two issues of volume 1, part 1, are known to exist, with the catchword on page 7 either "mobile" or "stellis."
"[The work] was to have been in two volumes, the first containing two treatises, the second three; it was completed as far as the first section of the second treatise of the second volume."--Dict of nat. biog.
Illustrations engraved by J.T. de Bry and Matthaeus Merian the elder.

Physical Description

2 volumes : illustrations (engraving), maps (engraving), music ; 32 cm (fol.)

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