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- A true and exact relation of the late prodigious earthquake & eruption of mount Ætna, or Monte-Gibello; as it came in a letter written to His Majesty from Naples
- by the Right Honorable the Earle of Winchilsea, His Majesties late ambassador at Constantinople, who in his return from thence, visiting Catania in the island of Sicily, was an ey-witness of that dreadful spectacle. Together with a more particular narrative of the same, as it is collected out of severall relations sent from Catania. Published by authority.
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- Etymologiae.
- Registrum in libros etymologicarum.--Etymologiae.--Rubrice libri primi[-terti] de sumo bono.--De sumo bono., Title from incipits on leaf 2 (2nd group) and leaf 1 (3rd group)., Imprint from colophon (leaf 28, 3rd group)., "Incipit epistola Isidori iunioris hispalensis episcopi ad Braulionem Ce̜saraugustanũ episcopũ"--Incipit on leaf 1, 2nd group., "Incipit liber primus etymologiarũ sancti Isidori hispalensis episcopi. De disciplina [et] arte."--Incipit on leaf 2, 2nd group., "In christi nomine incipit liber primus sancti Isidori hispalensis episcopi de sũmo bono ..."--Incipit on leaf 1, 3rd group., "Hec est arbor consanguinitatis" (full-page woodcut) (leaf 48v.)., History of Science copy has the "Rubrice ... de Sumo bono" bound in at end., Manuscript notes in margins., Hand-colored initial on leaf 1, 2nd group.
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- Wondertooneel der nature : geopent in eene korte beschryvinge der hoofddeelen van de byzondere zeldsaamheden daar in begrepen : in orde gebragt en bewaart
- door Levinus Vincent., Part 2 has individual t.p. with title: Het tweede deel of vervolg van het Wondertooneel der natuur ... ; and imprint: Te Amsteldam : Gedrukt voor den Autheur, en zijn te bekoomen bij Gerard Valk ..., 1715., Includes errata., Tail-pieces., Includes indexes.
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- Siderevs nvncivs magna, longeqve admirabilia spectacula pandens, suspiciendaque proponens vnicuique, præsertim vero philosophis, atq astronomis
- qua à Galileo Galileo, patritio Florentino, Patauini gymnasij publico mathematico, perspicilli nuper à se reperti beneficio sunt obseruata in lvn facie, fixis innvmeris,lacteo circvlo, stellis nebvlosis, apprime vero in qvatvor planetis circa Iovis stellam disparibus interuallis, atque periodis, celeritate mirabili circumuolutis; quos, nemini in hanc vsque diem cognitos, nouissime author depræhendit primus; atque Medicea sidera nvncvpandos decrevit., Signatures: A-D[*]E-G., In case., Two leaves between l. 16 and 17 not numbered., Author's autograph on front fly-leaf. (Presentation copy), Title vignette.
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- Siderevs nvncivs magna, longeqve admirabilia spectacula pandens, suspiciendaque proponens vnicuique, præsertim vero philosophis, atq astronomis
- qua à Galileo Galileo, patritio Florentino, Patauini gymnasij publico mathematico, perspicilli nuper à se reperti beneficio sunt obseruata in lvn facie, fixis innvmeris,lacteo circvlo, stellis nebvlosis, apprime vero in qvatvor planetis circa Iovis stellam disparibus interuallis, atque periodis, celeritate mirabili circumuolutis; quos, nemini in hanc vsque diem cognitos, nouissime author depræhendit primus; atque Medicea sidera nvncvpandos decrevit., Signatures: A-D[*]E-G., In case., Two leaves between l. 16 and 17 not numbered., Author's autograph on front fly-leaf. (Presentation copy), Title vignette.
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- Nouae gnomonices libri quinque
- Unpublished autograph manuscript on dialing, with numerous illustrations, by the celebrated Italian polymath Bernardino Baldi., Bernardino Baldo, Urbinate, Guastallae abbate, autore., Statement of responsibility corrected by author with different pen and ink to: Bernardino Baldo, Urbinate, Guastallenesis ecclesiae abbate autore., Holograph., Date from last page.
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- Gvidi Vbaldi è marchionibvs Montis Mecanicorvm liber, in quo haec continentur ...
- From t.p.: De libra -- De vecte -- De trochlea -- De axe in peritrocheo -- De cuneo -- De trochlea., At foot of leaf 104: F. Andreas Berna Minorita Conu. vidit, & ad verbum castigauit., Title vignette., The publisher statement appears after the date of publication.
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- Nova stereometria doliorvm vinariorvm, in primis Austriaci, figuræ omnium aptissimæ; et usus in eo virgæ cubicæ compendiosissimus & plane singularis. Accessit Stereometriæ Archimedeæ supplementum.
- Authore Ioanne Kepplero ..., Errata leaf tipped in at end., Title vignette., Initials., P. 61-62 extra long and folded at bottom., With: Kepler, Johannes. Ausszug auss der uralten messekunst Archimedis ... Lintz, gedruckt durch H. Blancken, 1616., Harlow Collection bookplate.
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- Gvilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; physiologia noua, plurimis & argumentis, & experimentis demonstrata.
- Head and tail pieces; initials., "Ad gravissimvm doctissimvmqve virum D. Gulielmum Gilbertum, medicin apud Londinenses doctorem eximium, magneticque philosophi parentem; de magneticis hisce libris, Edwardi Wrighti parainesis enkomiastike": prelim. leaves 3-5.
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- Cosmographia in qvatvor libros distribvta svmmo ordine, miraqve facilitate, ac breuitate ad magnam Ptolemæi mathematicam constructionem, ad vniuersamq́ue astrologiam instituens.
- Francisco Barocio ... avtore. Cum præfatione eiusdem autoris, in qua perfecta quidem astrologiæ diuisio, & enarratio autorum illustrium, & voluminum ab eis conscriptorum in singulis astrologiæ partibus habetur: Ioannis de Sacrobosco verò 84 errores, & alij permulti suorum expositorum, & sectatorum ostenduntur, rationibusq́[uam] redarguuntur. Præcesserunt etiam quædam communia mathematica, necnon arithmetica, & geometrica principia, nonnullæq́[uam] propositiones, de quibus in toto opere sæpe fit mentio: ac demum locupletissimus index eorum, quæ ipsa Cosmographia continentur ..., Printer's device, initials, side notes., Errata: p. [135], first group., In ms. on t.p.: "Joseph Laurentij ... 1635."
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- Francisci de Verulamio, summi Angliae cancellarii. Instauratio magna. Multi pertransibunt & augebitur scientia.
- First edition., Title-page engraved and illustrated, initials., Signatures: t.-p. (verso blank), [par.] , A-C, D-Ss, Tt, a-e., Pages 23-24 at end (sig. c, blank?) ; also last leaf e (blank) wanting., Errors: nos. 173-180 omitted in paging; 6 at end misprinted for 7., "Distribvtio operis. Eius constituuntur partes sex. 1. Partitiones scientiarum. 2. Nouum organum. 3. Phnomena vniuersi. 4. Scala intellectus. 5. Prodromi. 6. Philosophia secunda."--p. 15., Of the six parts, this edition contains only the 2d. part, the Nouum organum, followed by a sketch of the 3d part, which the author calls "Parasceve, ad historiam natvralem, et experimentalem", and a "Catalogvs historiarvm paricvlarivm, secundum capita". Works which represent the first and third part were published later; of the fourth and fifth parts only prefaces were written.
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- Atlas celeste de Flamsteed
- approuve par l'Academie royal des sciences, et publie sous le privilege de cette compagnie.