De metallicis libri tres.
Rome: Alvise Zanetti, 1596. First edition, the Honeyman copy, of this rare and important early work on metallurgy, for which Georges Cuvier called Cesalpino the creator of the doctrines of mineralogy. Andrea Cesalpino (1519-1603) is best known for his botanical discoveries, “grouping a wealth of careful observations under broad categories..... More
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