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AGRIPPA VON NETTESHEIM, HEINRICH CORNELIUS Henrici Cornelii Agrippae Ab Nettesheim// Armata Emilitiae Equitis// Aurati, ET Iuris utriusque ac Medicinae Doctoris, Opera Operum pars posterior: quorum catalogum exhibebunt tibi paginae sequentes; Vna Cvm Rervm Et Verborvm Hoc tomo
Memorabilium[Cont] Leyden, Beringos Fratres, 1550, First Collected Edition, Second Issue. Hard Cover, 17.2 cm, [8] sheets, 1156 Pp.; 8o. Ill.: None.. Very Good/No Jacket.¶ [Cont.] Indice, & locuplete & certo; Huic accesserunt Epistolarum ad familiares libriseptem, & orationes decem ante hoc seorsim edita. This work includes his famous "de Vanitate Scientiarum,"a sarcastic attack on contemporary science and the pretensions of learned men the popularity of which contributed considerably to the development of true sciences, subverting the alchemists and magical wonder workers who populated the scientific world during his life time in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Curiously, after his dismissal as court historian for Charles the Vth, he, himself had a career as just such a wonder worker! A German scholar, states similarly(Ueberweg III, 138) :"Was von Kritik der Philosophie, insbesondere der aristotelischen Lehre und Logik, der scholastischen Theologie, der Astrologie, der Alchemie hervorgetreten war, (stellte Agrippa hier) zu dem ersten modernen Kompendium der Skepsis zusammen und verband dies mit einer Geisselung der kirchlichen und politischen Missstände.. Den positiven Hintergrund bildet seine neuplatonische Theosophie." In its skepticism, it is called "one of the first testimonials to knowledge of the limits of human understanding." (DSB). Another work included here is his commentary on his important predecessor, Raymond Lull's work on military issues. Also anthologized is his work on the nobility of the female sex. It includes his letters to a whole array of scientists, philosophers and theologians throughout Europe, and their responses, his work on plague and its treatments, his lectures, and ends with his epigrams. ~Adams 375; of this Pars Posterior there is 1 Location At SWB [in KVK]; Unloc. At OCLC, COPAC has a small fragment of this issue, only. RLIN, 2 Locs. [Johns Hopkins and Rutgers] and another at Harvard in Countway . The first two include volume one, described as including the spurious 4th book of De occulta philosophia, the Ars notoria (by Apollonius, of Tyana), and works by other authors, but nothing by Agrippa himself! Cf. Caillet 87, Duveen p.6, Graesse, Vol. 1 P. 44-45, lists many of Agrippa's works including one edition of his "Opera", without assigning a date. Only those on the nobility of women and on the happy state of matrimony were issued earlier than the date given at Adams and at SWB. Wellcome's issues are all later than this, except for I 86 which lacks much in our volume especially "De Vanitate Scientiarum". See Wellcome I . Wellcome II has a number of translations into modern European languages of various books but no further versions of the "Opera". ~Lightly water stained and browned throughout. An early owner has used red chalk to indicate connections and groupings in Agrippa's charts, which could be removed, if so desired. With insignificant worming always in blank margins, which are very broad and otherwise clear. The binding is a magnificent 20th century recreation of a period binding, full tooled calf with many punched devices, raised bands, within a rectilinear field, title and numeral II in gilt on spine, VG.~ $1,275.00~ 4. ~Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius:~ Henrici Cornelii Agrippae ab Nettesheym, De incertitudine & vanitate omnium Scientiarum & artium liber, lectu plane jucundus & elegans. & De nobilitate et praecellentia feminei sexus. ~ Lugduni Batavorum, Excudebat Severinus Matthaei, pro Officinis Abrahami Commelini & David Lopes de Haro, 1643. [16], 359 p. 14 cm. ~"Originally published in 1529, the Declamation on the Preeminence and Nobility of the Female Sex argues that women are more than equal to men in all things that really matter, including the public spheres from which they had long been excluded. Rather than directly refuting prevailing wisdom, Agrippa uses women's superiority as a rhetorical device and overturns the misogynistic interpretations of the female body in Greek medicine, in the Bible, in Roman and canon law, in theology and moral philosophy, and in politics. He raised the question of why women were excluded and provided answers based not on sex but on social conditioning, education, and the prejudices of their more powerful oppressors."[Thorndike] His work on the uncertainty of scientific knowledge was his most famous work, and in its day was as famous as Erasmus' in Praise of Folly. It is an essay, which shows the emptiness and instability of science as it had been thus far practiced, nonetheless tracing of man's evolution and progress. Agrippa had great stature as a great man of learning when he wrote the essay, and was and was yet to become professor in many European universities. But, it is an expression of disappointment and dissatisfaction with all his achievements, learning, and experience, and with that of other contemporary scientists, so full of information and was reprinted many times and translated into most modern European languages during his lifetime, and continued to be reprinted throughout the whole of the 17th century. Although. Among the other sciences which he deprecates are those we call the "occult sciences," he was in fact a life long practitioner in these. Even in this work he gives information and reveals his knowledge of the field of occult science, using 20 of its 85 chapters to discuss it, and listing past writers on such subjects as chiromancy and natural science," [Thorndike V, 133]. Caillet 88. OCLC, 10 Locs. In the USA[COO, WK, AZS, CUY, JHE, CWR, CIN, OKU, PIT, SYS] OCLC also notes only these earlier issues 1622 [CUY, only], 1624 [VXG, CUF]. Lightly water stained and browned throughout. An early owner has used red chalk to indicate connections and groupings in Agrippa's charts, which could be removed, if so desired. With insignificant worming always in blank margins, which are very broad and otherwise clear. The binding is a magnificent 20th century recreation of a period binding, full tooled calf with many punched devices, raised bands, within a rectilinear field, title and numeral II in gilt on spine, VG..
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