Shelfmark
Gb.5.19(03)
Author
Uniform title
[Perspectiva]
Title
Rogerii Bacconis Angli, viri eminentissimi Perspectiva. In qua, quæ ab aliis fvse traduntur, succincte, neruose & ita pertractantur, vt omnium intellectui facile pateant. Nunc primum in lucem edita opera & studio Iohannis Combachii...
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Rogerii Bacconis Angli, viri eminentissimi Perspectiva. In qua, quae ab aliis fuse traduntur, succincte, neruose & ita pertractantur, ut omnium intellectui facile pateant. Nunc primum in lucem edita opera & studio Iohannis Combachii...
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Notule de speculis
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Tractatus de speculis
Publication, distribution, etc.
Francofurti : Typis Wolffgangi Richteri, sumptibus Antonii Hummii, M.DC.XIV [1614].
Physical description
[8], 189 (i.e. 207), [1]p : ill. ; 4to.
Note
First edition of Part V of Bacon's Opus majus.
Note
Numerous errors in pagination; pages 206, 207 numbered 204, 189.
Note
A 4-leaf gathering containing diagrams, counted as [8] p. of plates is inserted between signatures u and x. Its 1st leaf bears a dagger-sign, but not in the normal signature position.
Note
"Tractatus de speculis" (known as De speculis comburentibus): p. 168-204; "Notulae de speculo" (anonymous; known as Notule de speculis): p. 205-189 [i.e. 207].
Note
Previously Ef.5.23.
Note
Ornament on title page; woodcut head-pieces and initials.
With note
[Bound with:] Napier, J. Mirifici logarithmorum... (1614), Marius, S. Mundus Iovialis... (1614), Bacon, R. Specula mathematica... (1614), Mysterium arithmeticum... (1615) and Crusius, P. Doctrina revolutionum... (1567).
Citation/references note
Cicognara, 808
Provenance
Bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Ms contents list on flyleaf.
Provenance
Ms notes in Latin.
Provenance
From the library of John Harrison [note on card cat.].
Binding
17th-century brown calf; triple blind fillet to form a border; rebacked?; five raised bands; spine title: "Tractatus Mathematic".
Subject
Optics Early works to 1800.
Subject
Philosophy of nature Early works to 1800.
Subject
Perspective Early works to 1800.
Subject
Mathematics Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Harrison, John, ? - d. 1642 former owner.
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Added entry--place
Germany Frankfurt.
Identifier
B18529