豪达,彼得鲁斯·拉马泽尼乌斯,1638年。
大四开本 (4) 页,包括雕刻标题,144页(错误编号为152)
;30页,(1) 页勘误表夹在第28和29页之间,文本中有许多雕刻插图。全棕色星云小牛皮装订,双金线框饰物板,书脊带金饰花角,红色书口配大理石纹饰。当时的书脊装订。
317 x 195 mm。
罗伯特·弗吕德最后一篇关于创世的遗作的原始死后版。
威廉·奥斯勒爵士,Biblotheca Osleriana:医学和科学史书籍目录,编号2629;DSB V, 47ff. – Ferguson I, 284. – Wheeler Gift 112-113. – Mottelay S. 554. – Gardner 237 & 236. – Wellcome I, 2331 & 2332. – Poggendorff I, 763(仅限第I部分)。
在他的著作中,罗伯特·弗吕德(1574-1638),英国最著名的哲学家和炼金术士之一,证明了太阳——光与生命的来源——与上帝之间的平等关系。
‘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).
作为帕拉塞尔士的门徒,在这本著名的著作中,他主要捍卫磁性医学,并由此走向移植医学:弗吕德详细说明了在人类、动物和植物之间疾病移植的优点。
最终版包括弗吕德对苏格兰牧师福斯特就该著作发表的反驳的回应:给M. 福斯特的Hoplocrisma-Spongum的回应 (同上,1638年——共30页)。
该作品附有一幅铜版刻划的标题(在第二部分开头重复出现)及其文本中大约30幅的插图,包括4幅铜版画。
保存于当时的装订中,保存状况良好。
出处:A N. Brugière de Lamotte(雕刻的藏书票)和标题上的当时手稿藏书票。