Goudae, Petrus Rammazenius, 1638.
대형 4도 (4) 장. 포함된 새겨진 제목, 144장 (152로 잘못 번호가 매겨진); 30장, (1) 장 오류가 ff.28과 29 사이에 묶여 있음, 텍스트에 많은 삽화. 당시의 구릿빛 갈색 송아지 가죽 제본, 표지판에 금색 이중 실로 테두리, 꽃 무늬 금 장식이 있는 등뼈, 자갈 무늬 위에 빨간 가장자리. 당시의 제본.
317 x 195 mm.
로버트 플러드의 창조에 관한 마지막 에세이의 사후 초판.
Sir William Osler, Biblotheca Osleriana : 의학과 과학의 역사를 보여주는 책들의 목록, n°2629 ; DSB V, 47ff. – Ferguson I, 284. – Wheeler Gift 112-113. – Mottelay S. 554. – Gardner 237 & 236. – Wellcome I, 2331 & 2332. – Poggendorff I, 763 (nur Tl. I).
작품에서, 로버트 플러드 (1574-1638)는 유명한 영국의 철학자 겸 연금술사 중 한 명으로, 태양 – 빛과 생명의 근원 – 과 신의 동등함을 증명한다.
‘In the first half of the seventeenth century [Fludd] was one of England’s best known philosophers. Certainly few Englishmen of his day managed to draw the attention of such a distinguished group as Kepler, Mersenne, and Gassendi – each of whom wrote at least one work discussing, and usually complaining of, Fludd’s theories. To many Europeans he seemed the most prominent of all English philosophers of his day ‘Fludd, like most other Renaissance scientists, and certainly like all Paracelsians, had a bitter hatred of Aristotle even though Aristotelian influences are evident throughout his work. As his authority he preferred to turn to God’s two books of revelation – one, His written book, the Holy Scriptures, and the other, nature, God’s book of Creation Fludd stated that the origin of all things may be sought in the dark chaos (potential unity) from which arose the light (divine illumination or actual unity). He affirmed that there is true unity in this dichotomy since “Light was unto the eternall unity all one with darkness, though unto our weak capacities they are opposite in property”. Continuing, he explained that it was from the darkness or shades of the chaos through the divine light that there appeared the waters which are the pervasive matter of all other substances. This is then true Mosaic philosophy, which is built upon the three primary elements of darkness, light, and the waters or the Spirit of the Lord. And it is with the aid of this divine knowledge that we may bring order even out of the confusion found in the writings of the ancients on the subject. With a careful analysis of their texts Fludd showed that when Aristotle wrote of the prima materia, Plat of the hyle, Hermes of the umbra horrenda, Pythagoras of the “symbolical unity”, and Hippocrates of the deformed chaos, they were all writing in reality of the darkness or the dark abyss of Moses. Similarly by some name or another all of these philosophers knew something of the Mosaic “light” and “waters”. However, in their interpretations they often varied far from the truth and it is to the works of Plato and the Pymander of Hermes that the true adept is urged to go for enlightenment’ (Debus, The English Paracelsians pp. 105-109).
파라셀수스의 제자로서, 그는 특히 이 유명한 저작에서 자기의학을 옹호했으며, 이는 이식을 통한 의료로 이어졌다: 플러드는 인간, 동물, 식물 사이의 질병 이식의 장점을 설명한다.
서적에는 플러드가 스코틀랜드 사제 포스터에 의해 발행된 이 저작의 반박에 대한 답변을 Responsum ad Hoplocrisma-Spongum M. Fosteri (Ibid., id., 1638 – 30 ff.)로 수록했다.
책은 구리로 새긴 제목과 (두 번째 부분의 시작에도 반복) 약 30점의 삽화가 포함되어 있으며, 이 중 4점은 구리로 새겨졌다.
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