Hibernicus,T.
Flores doctorum insignium , tam graecorum, quam latinorum, qui in …

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Hibernicus,T. Flores doctorum insignium , tam graecorum, quam latinorum, qui in theologia ac philosophia claruerunt... Antwerp, Bellerum 1576. 704 pp. Blind embossed pigskin boards over wooden boards. (Clasps missing, worn and rubbed). Compilation of texts by important churchmen - a rich collection of patristic sources, especially for early Christianity and the philosophy of the Neoplatonists. - Some browning, some spotting. Stamped several times.

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BALZAC (Honoré de). Lettres à l'étrangère: posthumous works. 1833-1842 [t. 1]. 1842-1844 [t. 2] 1845-1846 [t. 3] 1846-1847 [t. 4]. Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1899, 1906, 1933, 1950. 4 vols. large in-8 paperback, printed salmon covers. Original editions. Vol. 1, copy no. 47/100 on Hollande, untrimmed, frontispiece portrait of Madame Hanska; Vol. 2, copy no. 100 on Hollande, untrimmed; Vol. 3, copy on Hollande, untrimmed, front view of Wierzchownia Castle; Vol. 4, copy no. VI of 50 on vélin de Rives numbered I to L. Figures in and out of text. Spines slightly sunned, as is the first cover of vol. 4, which also has a small stain, otherwise very good copies. Gilt bookplate on leather of Geneviève Dubois and Georges Flore on upper counterplate of vol. 1. "A work of capital importance for our knowledge of Balzac's life and work. Correspondence equal in interest to those of Flaubert and Stendhal, in which we see day by day the artistic, sentimental and passionate life of the great novelist." (Carteret, I, 88).

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PAULUS DE MIDDELBURG. Paulina de recta Paschae celebratione. Fossombrone, Ottaviano Petrucci, 1513[Colophon:] Impressum Forosempronii per spectabilem virum Octauianum petrutium ... anno Domini 1513 die octaua Iulii. Folio, mm. 320x205. Rigid vellum binding, renewed guard sheets. Papers 396 unnumbered. Register: Marks: a8 b6 c-s8 t10 ; A-O8 W6 P-2F8 2G6. Calendar text printed in red and black, numerous wood-engraved capilettera on black ground, round typeface. On verso of frontispiece silograph depicting a shield in the arms of Pope Leo X surmounted by the tiara and keys of St. Peter and supported by two angels, coat of arms of the Pope on c. a2r and on paper A1r coat of arms of the dedicatee of the second part, Emperor Maximilian. Four woodcut frames composed of four woods and one full-page woodcut. At the end of the volume large typographic mark. Restoration to inner margin of first papers, sporadic traces of use, good copy with wide margins. Very rare first edition. First book printed in Fossombrone. Astronomical and astrological work by one of Copernicus' teachers, who remembers him as his mentor at the end of the Preface to De Revolutionibus: "Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur, quibus et hi nostri labores, si me non fallit opinio, videbuntur etiam reipublicae ecclesiasticae conducere aliquid, cuius principatum tua Sanctitas nunc tenet. Nam non ita multo ante sub Leone X cum in Concilio Lateranensi vertebatur quaestio de emendando kalendario ecclesiastico, quae tum indecisa hanc solummodo ob causam mansit, quod annorum et mensium magnitudines, atque Solis et Lunae motus nondum satis dimensi haberentur. Ex quo equidem tempore, his accuratius observandis, animum intendi, admonitus a praeclarissimo viro Domino Paulo episcopo Semproniensi, qui tum isti negotio praeerat. Quid autem praestiterim ea in re, tuae Sanctitatis praecipue, atque omnium aliorum doctorum mathematicorum iudicio relinquo, et ne plura de utilitate operis promittere tuae Sanctitati videar, quam praestare possim, nunc ad institutum transeo." [Mathematical calculations and questions are written by and for mathematicians, by whom these works of ours - if I am not mistaken - are also deemed useful for the Republic of the Church, whose leadership is held by Your Holiness. Not long ago, the issue of calendar reform was considered under the reign of Leo X in the Lateran Council. Yet no decision was made because there was no sufficiently precise measurement of the length of the years and months and the motions of the sun and moon. From those days on, I exercised my wits on more precise observations, admonished by the most celebrated man, Dominus Paulus, bishop of Fossombrone, then head of the commission. What I have achieved in this matter I leave to the judgment of Your Holiness above all, and all other doctors in mathematics. And not to promise too much, I will now turn to the contents of the book]Copernicus had come into contact with mathematicians, astronomers and astrologers During his stay in Bologna beginning in 1497, Copernicus had come into contact with mathematicians, astronomers, and astrologers, a scientific environment in which Paulus de Middelburg was highly regarded. The relationship between Copernicus and Paulus de Middelburg is documented very precisely in the study by R. S. Westman, devoted to Copernicus and Astrology. The two scholars also entertained an interesting correspondence in later years. Welker finds textual evidence of Bishop's role and importance in the scientific discussions of the time in Gassendi's commentary on a letter from Bishop to Copernicus: "His role and importance in the fervent scientific discussions of his time becomes tangible in Pierre Gassendi's commentary on a letter from Paul to Copernicus." Paulus de Middelburg, c. 1455-1534, physician, mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, became bishop of Fossombrone in 1494. He wrote important works on calendar reform and this is considered his major work. He presented this book to the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17) for consideration of calendar reform. He was against returning the equinox to March 21 and opposed the idea of abandoning the lunar cycle or placing Easter on a fixed Sunday of the year. He did, however, propose a change in the cycle by reducing the seven embolic months to five.A typographical masterpiece, this figurative work, divided into two parts, deals with calendar reform.The illustrations are probably by Francesco Griffo, the famous inventor of Manuzio's Italic typeface, who was collaborating with the Fossombrone printer in those years. The valuable full-page woodcut consists of three conjoined parts: the first depicts the Virgin in glory with child in a hemicycle of popes, the second and third depict Christ on the cross silhouetted against scenes from the

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