Author: STEVIN, SIMON
Title: Vita Politica. Het Burgerlyk leven, beschreven door Simon Stevin. In sijn leven raad, ende ingenieur sijner Princelicke Excellentie Maurits Grave van Nassau, & c. Stadhouder van Holland. Seer noodig om in alle Houkse ofte Cabeljaawse tijden: ende bysonder lik gedurende onse binnenlandse verschillen in Holland, geleesen te werden.
Description: t' Amsterdam, Abraham Olofsz, 1684. In 4to. In modern hlf.. clf over marbl. paper brds. (20 pp.). (Most lvs. frayed, some small tears in blank margins, some soiling). Knuttel, 12173: Bibl. Belgica V, p. 223, S 134: 'Troisième édition, conforme aux deux prémières.' (Leiden and Delft, 1590; Middelburg, 1658): Tiele Pamfletten III, 8085: Assumes Olofsz is a pseudonym.: Ledeboer, Boekdrukkers, p. 68 mentions a publication of the "Vita" dated 1681, not confirmed by other bibliographic sources.: Simon Stevin's exposition of citizens' civil obligations in which chapter 7 and 8 are the most important, discussing those people who live in the country and whose religion is not tolerated and the course of action to be taken, reflecting Stevin's own choice when he embraced the Reformation and fled to Holland in order to escape persecution.

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