Le Grand, Historia naturæ, variis experimentis & ratiociniis elucidata
Le Grand, Historia naturæ, variis experimentis & ratiociniis elucidata
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Le Grand, Antoine. Historia naturæ, variis experimentis & ratiociniis elucidata. Secundum principia stabilita in Institutione philosophiæ edita ab eodem authore. London, J. Martyn 1673. 8°. [11] Bl., 416 S., [8] Bl. mit gestoch. Frontispiz und einigen Holzschnitten im Text. Pergamenteinband der Zeit mit handschr. Rückentitel. Krivatsy 6805. Thorndike VIII, 286. Wellcome III, 480. Nicht bei Houzeau-Lancaster. – Erste Ausgabe des naturwissenschaftlichen Kompendiums. Verfasst von dem Descartes-Schüler Antoine Le Grand (1629-1699), Professor in Douai, der sich lange Zeit in England aufhielt und dort die Cartesianische Lehre verbreitete. – „His History of Nature … was in nine parts. The first argued against the existence of a vacuum. The second, on qualities, held that even occult qualities might be explained in terms of the figures of corpuscles and pores. The third was a history of the universe with Le Grand’s opinion of the influence of celestial on inferior bodies. The other six dealt with the four elements, minerals, meteors, plants, animals, and man. Le Grand denied the influence of the moon, that the basilisk killed by its glance, that the corpse bleeds at the approach of the murderer, and that wearing laurel makes one immune from lightning. On the other hand, he affirmed that an entire forest sprang up after great rains, and that exceptionally delicate cucumbers could be grown by soaking the seeds in milk“ (Thorndike). – Einband fleckig, freie Vorsätze fehlen, gutes Exemplar.
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