Propositiones ex Universa Philosophia, Theoremata ex Architectura Civili et Militari, Constructiones atque Usus Geometricos Instrumentorum pro Utraque Architectura, Agrimentria, Longimetria, Altimetria, Etc.

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Quarto. 46pp. +18ff. Contains eighteen folding plates with copperplate architectural engravings: materials, moldings, capitals and ornaments, as well as groundplans, elevations and three-dimensional renderings of fortifications. Lacks portrait. Title in red and black with woodcut vignette. Several fine woodcut headpieces and ornaments. "Franciscus Nicolaus Rangonius" states his intention to lecture and debate on these his "propositiones" for a period of two days under the auspices of Pope Clement XIII. He starts with cosmology, psychology, "Physica Newtoniana," astronomy, anatomy, and electricity (both natural and artificial). He will refute Lucretius, Hobbes, and Locke. He then moves on to civil and military architecture, and instruments for measuring and surveying. The mysterious Rangonius, who seems to have published nothing else, may be a member of the Rangoni family of Modena. Not in the British Museum or Library of Congress. Only one copy is located by both the NUC and OCLC, at the University of Texas, and that copy is incomplete, In original plain pale green wrappers, the front cover detached. Lightly waterstained and foxed throughout. N° de ref. del artículo 000157

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