Author: SENGUERDUS, A. [SENKWARD].-
Title: Rationis atque Experientiae Connubium, continens Experimentorum Physicorum, Mechanicorum, Hydrostaticorum, Barometricorum, Thermometricorum, aliorumque, Compendiosam Enarrationem ususque Expositionem, & ad rationis incudem Revocationem. Aeris, aliorumque Phaenomenorum Detectioni, Illustrationi atque expositioni interventia. Accedit ejusdem Disquisitio de Tarantula, tertio edita. In usum domesticae institutiones.
Description: Rotterdami, Apud Bernardum Bos, 1715. 8vo. W. engr. vignet on title & 3 large fold. engr. pls. at the end [sc. Bleyswijk] one of which browned. leaf S3recto w. a small engr. ill. mimicking an engraved title, w. impressum Bos. Contemp. brds., w. paper titleshield, lettered in ink. [*8, A - V8, X4]. (XVIV, 328 pp.). (Some medium yellowing & browning.). (Uncut, partially unopened.). (Upper paste down w. bookplate 'Petri Buoninsegni, 1702). BdH 4311: Pogg. II, 907: v.d.Aa VI, 192: (Amsterdam 1610 - 1668, Theology, philosophy, metaphyisics) In 1636 Professor of physics and metaphysics. In 1648 he succeeded Barlaeus in Amsterdam: BdH 4314 [Senkward]: DMB 1800/1: '... not only engaged in the teaching of philosophy, logic and physics... but he also applied himself to anatomy.': Banga, pp. 370 - 372: Pogg. II, 907: Jöcher IV, 504: Thijssen-Schoute pp. 433, 212, 248, 668, a.o. pl. Some of the subjects he occupied himself with are: experiments in physics, using barometers, thermometers, hygrometers, place and time, the earth and the heavens, stars, meteors, comets, minerals, motion etc. He was much influenced by Descartes.: Not in Ledeboer, Gesl. van Waesberghe.: Good copy. An added bonus is the treatise on the Tarantula, from pp. 281 - 328:

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