Peripateticarum Quaestionum Libri Quinque. [Bound with:] PATRIZI, Francesco. Discussionum Peripateticarum, tomi primi, libri XIII: In quorum lectione, innumera sane inuenient studiosi, non solum in Aristotelica philosophia, tironibus: sed etiam, et in ea, et in reliqua literatura veteranis, mirabiliter, tum vtilia, tum rerum veteri nouitatae, iucundissima.
Venice; Venice: Giunta; Dominico de’ Franceschi, 1571. First edition, and a fine copy in a contemporary binding, of Cesalpino’s very rare work which coined the phrase “circulation of the blood” (circulatio sanguinis, f. 111v) and provided the theoretical basis for Harvey’s experimental and quantitative treatment in De motu cordis (1628)..... More
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