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PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius (23-79). Liber secundus...de mundi historia. Commentary by Jacob Milich. Schwbisch Hall: Peter Brubach [Braubach], March [colophon: September] 1538.
4o (181 x 139 mm). Italic, roman and greek types, woodcut initials and headpiece, 20 woodcut diagrams of celestial orbits, of which 6 full-page. (Some dampstaining, light foxing, creasing to corners of last few leaves.) Contemporary limp vellum, spine liners from a 15th-century vellum manuscript (inner hinges split).
Best known as the teacher and mentor of the mathematician Michael Stifel, the greatest German algebraist of the 16th century, Jacob Milich (1501-1559) was lecturer on mathematics at the University of Wittenberg. This appears to be the only edition of his commentary on Book II of Pliny, devoted to the structure of the cosmos. Printed by Schwbisch Hall's prototypographer Peter Braubach, the edition is quite rare.
4o (181 x 139 mm). Italic, roman and greek types, woodcut initials and headpiece, 20 woodcut diagrams of celestial orbits, of which 6 full-page. (Some dampstaining, light foxing, creasing to corners of last few leaves.) Contemporary limp vellum, spine liners from a 15th-century vellum manuscript (inner hinges split).
Best known as the teacher and mentor of the mathematician Michael Stifel, the greatest German algebraist of the 16th century, Jacob Milich (1501-1559) was lecturer on mathematics at the University of Wittenberg. This appears to be the only edition of his commentary on Book II of Pliny, devoted to the structure of the cosmos. Printed by Schwbisch Hall's prototypographer Peter Braubach, the edition is quite rare.