CAMPANELLA (TOMMASO): Prodromus Philosophiae Instaurandae, id est, Dissertationis De Natura Rerum, Frankfurt, Excudebat Ioannes Bringerus Sumptibus Godefridi Tampachii, 1617, 4to, FIRST EDITION [Ziegenfuss I, 165; Thorndike VII, 292]; De Sensu Rerum et Magia, Frankfurt, apud Egenolphum Emmelium, impensis Godefridi Tampachii, 1620, 4to, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE before the engraved title border [Graese, Bibl. Mag. et Pneumat., 53; Vogt, Cat. Hist. Crit. Librorum Rariorum, 216; Thorndike VII, 29ff. -- Wellcome and Caillet list only the second issue]; APOLOGIA PRO GALILEO, Frankfurt, Impensis Godefredi Tampachii, Typis Erasmi Kempfferi, 1622, 4to, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE before the engraved title border [Brunet I, 520; Riccardi I, 217, 2: 'Rarissimo'; Caillet I, 1978], three works in one vol. (browned throughout, text on recto of M1 in the second work affected by paper fault), modern vellum.

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CAMPANELLA (TOMMASO): Prodromus Philosophiae Instaurandae, id est, Dissertationis De Natura Rerum, Frankfurt, Excudebat Ioannes Bringerus Sumptibus Godefridi Tampachii, 1617, 4to, FIRST EDITION [Ziegenfuss I, 165; Thorndike VII, 292]; De Sensu Rerum et Magia, Frankfurt, apud Egenolphum Emmelium, impensis Godefridi Tampachii, 1620, 4to, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE before the engraved title border [Graese, Bibl. Mag. et Pneumat., 53; Vogt, Cat. Hist. Crit. Librorum Rariorum, 216; Thorndike VII, 29ff. -- Wellcome and Caillet list only the second issue]; APOLOGIA PRO GALILEO, Frankfurt, Impensis Godefredi Tampachii, Typis Erasmi Kempfferi, 1622, 4to, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE before the engraved title border [Brunet I, 520; Riccardi I, 217, 2: 'Rarissimo'; Caillet I, 1978], three works in one vol. (browned throughout, text on recto of M1 in the second work affected by paper fault), modern vellum.

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The Prodromus Philosophiae, a 'Compendium of the Nature of Things', is an important document for Campanella's new view of the study and understanding of nature, no longer based on the teaching of Aristotle, and here represented as being a completion and clarification of the philosophy of Telesio. De Sensu Rarum et Magia is one of the principal philosophical works on the sensualistic theory of knowledge. The Apologia Pro Galileo is is the famous defence of Galilei by Campanella (1568-1639) who wrote it whilst in prison in Naples and gave the manuscript to a visitor, Adami, who undertook to publish it in Germany. This is assumed to be the reason why it remained unknown to Italian biographers of Galilei.

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