Author: HEMMINGA, Sextus ab. Title: Astrologiae, ratione et experientia refutatae liber, continens brevem quandam apodoxin de incertitudine & vanitate astrologica, & particularium praedictionum exempla triginta, nunc primum in lucem editus contra astrologos, Cyprianum Leovitium, Hieronymum Cardanum, & Lucam Gauricum.
Description: Antwerpen, ex officina Christophorus Plantin, 1583. 4to. (20, 8x15, 2 cm.). [xii], 303 pp. With 42 woodcut tables in the text. Modern half calf (new flyleaves); title and 'Frisius' in gold on spine. (title and last leaf a bit soiled, and with chafed edges; some quires a bit water stained; lower corner cut from last leaf) REFUTATION of ASTROLOGY in FIRST EDITION. ¶ Hoogendoorn Hemm01: "Sixtus ab Hemminga (Hemmena), physician in east Friesland and a staunch opponent of astrological predictions".
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Price: EUR 2800.00 = appr. US$ 3043.17 Seller: Antiquariaat Brinkman
- Book number: 143137
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