Science and thought in the fifteenth century; studies in the history of medicine and surgery, natural and mathematical science, philosophy and politics.

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8vo. pp. xii, [2], 387, [3]. With 10 black and white plates including the frontispiece representing John Tolhopf s scheme of the movement of the heavens. Bound in tan publisher s cloth. The binding is generally clean but shows some corner-tip bumping, especially the upper corner of the rear board. The dust jacket contains chipping and missing pieces along the edges including the spine caps and the rear wrapper. End papers show very light age-toning. A tiny tear is present at the bottom of p. 343. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Several leaves are unopened. This is a collection of articles by Lynn Thorndike on 15th century science and thought. According to the preface "the majority of these chapters are a revision, or enlargement and development, of articles which have appeared in learned periodicals…" Several short texts are published in the original Latin. The dust jacket blurb states: "A new picture is given of the fifteenth century by use of unpublished manuscript materials, by searching criticism of previous estimates, and by a varied method of approach from the various avenues of scholasticism and humanism, philosophy and natural science, law and political thought, medicine and surgery, geography and mathematics. The work is fully documented and presents numerous extracts from the original texts, including two complete treatises on the Platonic ideas by Nicolo dea Foligno, now published for the first time" [in Latin]. N° de ref. del artículo 001013

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