137. SENNERT (Daniel). De Chymicorum cum Aristotelicis et Ga - Lot 137

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137. SENNERT (Daniel). De Chymicorum cum Aristotelicis et Ga - Lot 137
137. SENNERT (Daniel). De Chymicorum cum Aristotelicis et Galenicis consensu. Paris, Société, 1633. In-4, [8] f., 434 p., [6] f. Bound with : Uratislaviensis epitome naturalis scientae. Paris, Society, 1633. [6] f., 297 p., [4] f. Bound in contemporary soft vellum with straps, title in ink on spine. Daniel Sennert (1572-1637) was a German physician and professor at the University of Wittemberg. He was famous in his time and his work remains the subject of numerous studies and publications today. In his early days, he showed that he avoided the alchemical theory and accepted the Aristotelian theory. But within a decade he had accepted alchemical transmutation and experimentation as valid. Moreover, some of his publications deal with alchemy and chemistry. Sennert's work encapsulates the crux of the problem of the interaction between chemistry and medicine, or even between theories of matter and life sciences, in the seventeenth century. His treatise De chymicorum cum Aristotelicis et Galenicis consensu ac dissensu liber (On the concordance and discordance of the Chemists with the Aristotelians and Galenists) was published in Wittenberg in 1619. But it is in his second revised edition of 1629 that he clearly confirms his adherence to atomism, says Dr. Hiro Hirai of the Center for the History of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy and Science of the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. A (healthy) wetness in the second opus. Fine worm gallery, sometimes biting on the characters, present on about ten leaves. Broken straps. sold by the ministry of Me Baratoux
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