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CESALPINO, Andrea (1519-1603). Peripateticarum Quaestionum Libri Quinque. Venice: Giunta, 1571.
4o (211 x 163 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, a few woodcut diagrams in text, numerous wooduct initials, many historiated. (Title lightly stained at edges and with stamp removed on blank margin, some dampstaining on upper inner margins, slight marginal worming, printing flaw on O2r affecting some letters, occasional pale spotting or light browning.) Contemporary limp vellum (few minor defects); leather chemise and morocco slipcase. Provenance: purchased in Venice (partially deleted inscription on flyleaf).
THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. The Peripateticarum quaestionum states Cesalpino's philosophical views and forms the framework of his medical and botanical works. Cesalpino's most important medical studies concern the anatomy and physiology of the movement of the blood. In this work he describes fairly accurately the cardiac valves and the pulmonary vessels connected to the heart, as well as the minor blood circulation. He recognized that the heart is the center of the circulation of the blood and observed that blood flows in a perpetual movement into the heart from the veins and from the heart to the arteries. "Cesalpino preceded Harvey in the discovery of the concept of the circulation, and Harvey must have known of his ideas" (Garrison & Morton). Garrison-Morton 755; Waller 1877; Norman 430.
4o (211 x 163 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, a few woodcut diagrams in text, numerous wooduct initials, many historiated. (Title lightly stained at edges and with stamp removed on blank margin, some dampstaining on upper inner margins, slight marginal worming, printing flaw on O2r affecting some letters, occasional pale spotting or light browning.) Contemporary limp vellum (few minor defects); leather chemise and morocco slipcase. Provenance: purchased in Venice (partially deleted inscription on flyleaf).
THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. The Peripateticarum quaestionum states Cesalpino's philosophical views and forms the framework of his medical and botanical works. Cesalpino's most important medical studies concern the anatomy and physiology of the movement of the blood. In this work he describes fairly accurately the cardiac valves and the pulmonary vessels connected to the heart, as well as the minor blood circulation. He recognized that the heart is the center of the circulation of the blood and observed that blood flows in a perpetual movement into the heart from the veins and from the heart to the arteries. "Cesalpino preceded Harvey in the discovery of the concept of the circulation, and Harvey must have known of his ideas" (Garrison & Morton). Garrison-Morton 755; Waller 1877; Norman 430.