Author: Pool, Matthys (Matthijs) (1676–1740)
Title: Engravings by Matthys Pool from Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsilis (1658-1730) Histoire Physique de la Mer, (Physical History of the Sea)
Description: Amsterdam, Aux depens de la Compagnie, 1725. 5 handcolored engravings. Plate nos. vii, xi, xxv, xv, xxxvii. Likely modern coloring. Engraving by Matthys Pool taken from Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsilis aka Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli) (1658-1730) Histoire Physique de la Mer, (Physical History of the Sea), the first oceonography book ever written, published Amsterdam in 1725. Marsili was a scientist and patron of the arts, who travelled throughout Europe. In 1722-23 he met Newton, Halley, Sloane, and the physician Herman Boehaave (1668-1738) who helped him publish this book and also wrote a preface for it. .

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