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A Paris, Chez Martin le Ieune, à l'enfeigne du Serpent, deuant le college de Cambray, 1580.8vo [156 x 106 mm] of (8) ll., 361 pp., (23) pp. of table. Ext. margin of the title-page restored not touching the text. Full red Jansenist morocco, spine ribbed, gilt edges. Binding signed by Trautz-Bauzonnet.
"First edition of a piece as interesting as rare". (Brunet, supplement, VIII, 133).
B.n.F., En Français dans le texte, n°72 ; Neville, Historical chemical Library, 2006, p. 250 ; Duveen, Bibliotheca alchemica et chemica, p. 446 : "A book of great importance in the history of chemistry and science generally. Extremely rare."
A great book of science in the sixteenth century.
Exemplary figure of the self-taught man, Bernard Palissy (1510-1590) advocated observation and the virtues of the experimental method.
Palissy, "one of the men of genius of whom France is proud", was born at the beginning of the sixteenth century in the village of La Capelle-Biron, in the diocese of Agen. A remarkable hydraulic… Read More