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TELESIO, Bernardino (1509-1588). Varii de naturalibus rebus libelli. Edited by Antonio Persio (1542-1612). Venice: Felice Valgrisi, 1590.
8 parts, 4° (225 x 153mm). Title to each part with woodcut device, woodcut illustrations to part 2, decorative initials. With the two blanks. (General title slightly soiled, C4 of pt. 3 mis-registered, I2 of pt. 4 with paper fault.) Bound in a 16th-century antiphonal leaf (front cover spotted and slightly bent). Provenance: Joannes Pezoldi,1 August 1680 (inscription on title).
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Each of the eight tracts has a separate title, foliation and signatures. Part 2, on the rainbow, is illustrated with cuts. Part 4, ‘Quod animal universum ab unica animae substantia gubernator, adversus Galenum,’ is considered particularly import for criticising central conceptions of Galenic physiology and psychology. Telesio’s ‘favourite philosophical target’ was Aristotle. Although no great practicing empiricist himself, he was able to deploy ‘certain Aristotelian concepts so as to achieve a new system of physical explanation, rejecting metaphysical entities that had no explanatory role in physics’ (DSB XIII, pp.278-79). Francis Bacon criticised his theories yet famously called him 'the first of the moderns', so strong was his conviction that sensory perception should be the primary source of knowledge. Adams T-294; BL/STC Italian Books p.662; Riccardi I(ii) 512.5; Wellcome I, 6774.
8 parts, 4° (225 x 153mm). Title to each part with woodcut device, woodcut illustrations to part 2, decorative initials. With the two blanks. (General title slightly soiled, C4 of pt. 3 mis-registered, I2 of pt. 4 with paper fault.) Bound in a 16th-century antiphonal leaf (front cover spotted and slightly bent). Provenance: Joannes Pezoldi,1 August 1680 (inscription on title).
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Each of the eight tracts has a separate title, foliation and signatures. Part 2, on the rainbow, is illustrated with cuts. Part 4, ‘Quod animal universum ab unica animae substantia gubernator, adversus Galenum,’ is considered particularly import for criticising central conceptions of Galenic physiology and psychology. Telesio’s ‘favourite philosophical target’ was Aristotle. Although no great practicing empiricist himself, he was able to deploy ‘certain Aristotelian concepts so as to achieve a new system of physical explanation, rejecting metaphysical entities that had no explanatory role in physics’ (DSB XIII, pp.278-79). Francis Bacon criticised his theories yet famously called him 'the first of the moderns', so strong was his conviction that sensory perception should be the primary source of knowledge. Adams T-294; BL/STC Italian Books p.662; Riccardi I(ii) 512.5; Wellcome I, 6774.
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