The Idiot in Four Books. The first and second of Wisdome. The third of the Minde. The fourth of statick Experiments, or experiments of the Ballance. By the famous and Learned C. Cusanus. by CUSANUS, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa]
by CUSANUS, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa]
The Idiot in Four Books. The first and second of Wisdome. The third of the Minde. The fourth of statick Experiments, or experiments of the Ballance. By the famous and Learned C. Cusanus.
by CUSANUS, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa]
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FIRST EDITION in English, 12mo., 140 x 80mm, pp. (2)118, (117-)209, 230-231 (1)advert.; title partially browned & sometime mounted having been torn (without loss), otherwise well preserved & clean with good fore-margins; contemporary blind-ruled calf, a little worn but sound, remains of later morocco label. First published in 1450, Cusan's dialogues De Sapientia and De Mente present his theories of mathematics in the form of Platonic dialogues between a layman and an Aristotelian philosopher. The more practical De Staticis Experimentis, contains methods for determining physical parameters with apparatus like scales (the 'ballance') and a water clock which was first used by Nicolaus to count the pulse. Wing K394 (under Nicolaus Khrypffs, cardinal). ESTC R202666.
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