P. Gasparis Schotti .e Societate Jesu Cursus mathematicus, sive absoluta omnium mathematicarum disciplinarum 1677 by Gaspar Schott - 2017

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Herbipoli, , 1660. 4º. . Excudebat Jobus Hertz Typographus Herbipolensis, 13 hojas (inclusive portadilla, con los datos: Herbipoli, Sumptibus Joannis Arnoldi Cholini, Bibliop. Menu Francof. Anno 1665), 408 páginas, 10 hojas. 33 láminas grabadas (una de ellas plegada), Hay dos láminas I, la primera aparece frente a la página 3, y así esta grabado en la plancha: "Iconismus I / pag 3"; sigue la II, pag 5; aparece otra: Iconismus I, pág 19"; continua: Iconismus III, pag 27", etc. Encuadernado en pergamino marfilado de la época con el título rotulado de nuevo. Toda la obra con el papel amarronado, pero muy buen ejemplar. Exlibris grabado y encolado, junto con un impreso (encolado en la primera hoja de guarda) que dictamina como quiere que sea su biblioteca y los ejemplares que en ella se encuentren, tanto en el exlibris como en este impreso se hace referencia al Duque Thomas Vargas Machuca, caballero de la orden de Jerusalen, y que no es otro que: "Il duca TOMMASO Vargas Macciucca, marchese di… Read More

Nürnberg: J. Hertz für J. A. & W. Endter, 1665. hardcover. Gut. Mit Vortitel, gest. Titel, typogr. Titel in Rot und Schwarz, einem blattgroßen gest. Wappen, 11 Kupfertafeln (davon 10 gefaltet) sowie 5 Textkupfern und vielen Tabellen im Text. Moderner Pappband mit Kiebitzpapier-Bezug und goldgepr. Deckelschild, 1 Bl. (w), 18 Bll., 346 S., 5 Bll. Dünnhaupt 12.1. Caillet 10007. De Backer-Sommervogel VII, 911. Vgl. Wheeler Gift 190 (2. Ausgabe 1680). - Erste Ausgabe. - Der vielseitige Gelehrte und Forscher Caspar Schott (1608-66), lehrte als Jesuit 20 Jahre in Palermo, bevor er nach einem Intermezzo in Rom, als Assistent Athanasius Kirchers, Professor für Mathematik und Physik am Würzburger Gymnasium wurde. - Schotts Werk über Verschlüsselung von Sprache ist als Weiterentwicklung der Polygraphia Nova et Universalis seines Lehrmeisters Kircher konzipiert, wie er es in seiner Einleitung darstellt. Beide bauten mit Ihren Schriften auf der Steganographia und… Read More

1687. Würzburg, J. Hertz für W. M. Endter, Nürnberg, 1687. 4°, 19 statt 20 Bl., 1044 S., 6 Bll., Kupfertitel, gest. Porträt und 59 (17 gefalt.) Kupfertafeln, Schweinsldr. d.Zt. mit 2 Schließen; wenige Wurmlöcher in Buchdeckel; feines Expl. Second edition of the famous collection of technical experiments, including v. Guericke's celebrated experiments on vacuums at Magdeburg. With engr. title, portrait and 59 engraved plates! Little browning and foxing, brownish stain to outer margin of 2nd part, notice of dedication to title page; plate 16 of 1st part with small torn away corner, some tears to folding plate 17; lacking the half-title. Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards with 2 brass clasps; some worming to covers. This famous encyclopedia of technical knowledge is especially important for its description of Otto von Guericke's fundamentally important experiments with the vacuum-pump and the celebrated Magdeburg Hemispheres, illustrated in a fine folding plate. The first… Read More

Herbipoli (Wurzburg), 1697. Hardcover. Browning throughout both volumes, mostly affecting the text only in the first volume but to the plates as well in the second. Circular spot about the size of a silver dollar on the front cover of the first volume where the vellum is lacking; otherwise, the binding is in very good shape. Overall, Very Good. Two quarto (7" x 8-5/8") volumes bound in contemporary vellum with titles in ink on the spines; [xl], 676; [677]-1389 [21] pages. With the half-title page, engraved title page, and 60 engraved plates, 6 of them folding. Considered to be one of Schott’s most comprehensive works, with in-depth discussions on angels, demons, witchcraft, satyrs, as well as animals and physical deformities in human beings. Striking plates including many depicting imagined beings. Gaspar Schott (1608-1666) joined the Society of Jesus in 1627 and began his studies at the University of Wurzburg. The 30-Years War forced him out of Germany, and he eventually traveled to Rome and… Read More

Added engraved title (with the arms & port. of the dedicatee, Christian Ludwig I, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin) & 32 engraved plates (one is folding). 12 p.l., 408, [20] pp. Small thick 4to, cont. vellum over boards (minor browning throughout). Würzburg: J.G. Schönwetter, 1660. First edition of one of the most comprehensive works of the period dealing with all kinds of measuring operations, including surveying. Many of the instruments described were preserved in Kircher's museum. This book, along with that of Claramontius, "contains the most important records of the leveling instruments of this period."-Kiely, Surveying Instruments, p. 130-(& see pp. 130-33, 136, 137, 139, 233, 241, & 340). Fine copy. Contemporary ownership inscription on title. ❧ Ashworth & Bradley, Jesuit Science in the Age of Galileo (Linda Hall Library), 31-"The 'Pantometrum' was a surveying device invented by Kircher and here described by Schott.… Read More