![Item #5962 Instauratio magna [Novum Organum]. Sir Francis BACON](https://sophiararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5962.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1702292541)
London: Joannem Billium, 1620. First edition, first issue, of Bacon’s plan for the total reconstruction of human knowledge on experimental and inductive foundations — the Devonshire–Horblit–Garden copy, and one of approximately fifteen copies printed on large paper with the crown watermark. Of the six parts projected, only the first two..... More
Item #5962
Leiden: Jan Maire, 1637. First edition of the founding text of modern philosophy, in a strictly contemporary Parisian armorial binding bearing the gilt quartered arms of Louis Hesselin (1602–1662) — maître ordinaire de la Chambre aux deniers, conseiller du Roi, and surintendant des plaisirs du Roi, choreographer of the court..... More
Item #5910
Leiden: Pieter van der Aa, 1690. First edition, first issue, and an extremely rare large-paper presentation copy inscribed by Huygens to Pierre-Daniel Huet, of the classical formulation of the wave theory of light and one of the foundational books of modern physics. Huygens had developed his theory in 1676 and..... More
Item #5928
Augsburg: [Philipp Ulhart the Elder], 1558. First complete edition of the earliest European treatise on magnetism — written in 1269, printed only in part in 1520, and not published in full until 1558, more than four decades before William Gilbert’s De Magnete and more than three centuries before the science..... More
Item #6212
Basel: Johannes Oporinus, June 1543. First edition of the illustrated summary of the Fabrica that Vesalius designed as its companion and that proved, over the following century, to be the more widely disseminated of the two. The Epitome was published simultaneously with the Fabrica. Where the Fabrica is a seven-book..... More
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