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MERBITZ, Johann Valentin (1650-1704). De varietate faciei humanae, discursus physicus. Appendicis loco accedunt carmina figurata Rabani Mauri. Dresden: apud Mart. Gabrielem Hübernum . . . typis viduae & haeredum Melchioris Bergenii, 1676. 19th-century gilt-ruled calf, rebacked. OOC 8. [With:]: [LLULL, Ramon (ca. 1232-1316). (1) Opera ea quae ad adinventam ab ipso artem universalem. . .. Argentorati [Strassburg]: sumptibus haeredum Lazari Zetzneri, 1651. (2) ALSTED, Johann Heinrich (1558-1638). Clavis artis Lullianae, et verae logices duos in libellos tributa. Argentorati [Strassburg]: sumptibus heredum Lazari Zitzner, 1652. 2 works in 1. Contemporary vellum, title hand-inked on spine. OOC7.
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MERBITZ, Johann Valentin (1650-1704). De varietate faciei humanae, discursus physicus. Appendicis loco accedunt carmina figurata Rabani Mauri. Dresden: apud Mart. Gabrielem Hübernum . . . typis viduae & haeredum Melchioris Bergenii, 1676. 19th-century gilt-ruled calf, rebacked. OOC 8. [With:]: [LLULL, Ramon (ca. 1232-1316). (1) Opera ea quae ad adinventam ab ipso artem universalem. . .. Argentorati [Strassburg]: sumptibus haeredum Lazari Zetzneri, 1651. (2) ALSTED, Johann Heinrich (1558-1638). Clavis artis Lullianae, et verae logices duos in libellos tributa. Argentorati [Strassburg]: sumptibus heredum Lazari Zitzner, 1652. 2 works in 1. Contemporary vellum, title hand-inked on spine. OOC7.
FIRST EDITION of Merbitz's book which takes features of the human face and describes them by mathematical and alphabetical schemes, constructs cyhper systems, and reproduces figured poems by the medieval encyclopedist, Hrabanus Maurus. Charles Babbage owned a copy of this work.
The works by LLULL and Alsted are the third edition and second edition respectively. Llull's art reperesents "the earliest attempt in the history of formal logic to employ geometrical diagrams for the purpose fo discovering nonmathematical truths, and the first attempt to use a mechanical device-a kind of primitive logical machine-to facilitate the operation of a logic system (Gardner 1958, 1).
FIRST EDITION of Merbitz's book which takes features of the human face and describes them by mathematical and alphabetical schemes, constructs cyhper systems, and reproduces figured poems by the medieval encyclopedist, Hrabanus Maurus. Charles Babbage owned a copy of this work.
The works by LLULL and Alsted are the third edition and second edition respectively. Llull's art reperesents "the earliest attempt in the history of formal logic to employ geometrical diagrams for the purpose fo discovering nonmathematical truths, and the first attempt to use a mechanical device-a kind of primitive logical machine-to facilitate the operation of a logic system (Gardner 1958, 1).
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