Philosophia Moysaica. [with] Responsum ad Hoplocrisma-Spongum M. Fosteri Presbiteri. Gouda: Petrus Rammazenius, 1638.

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FLUDD, Robert (1574-1637)

Philosophia Moysaica. [with] Responsum ad Hoplocrisma-Spongum M. Fosteri Presbiteri. Gouda: Petrus Rammazenius, 1638.

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FLUDD, Robert (1574-1637)
Philosophia Moysaica. [with] Responsum ad Hoplocrisma-Spongum M. Fosteri Presbiteri. Gouda: Petrus Rammazenius, 1638.
First edition of Fludd’s Moysaical Philosophy. 'This was the author's last work and, as such, fitly represents his matured opinions on Metaphysics, Philosophy, &c ... [It was] the only one of any importance that he translated into English, and thus evidently intended it to be more popular than his others' (Gardner, Rosicrucian Books, p. 33). The second work contains a dialogue on the use of the weapon salve. ‘Fludd entered into the contemporary dispute over the ‘weapon salve’, which was an important test for the validity of sympathetic medicine. In the course of this debate he described William Gilbert’s magnetic experiments in detail because they seemed to give valid examples of action at a distance. Here was support by analogy for the truth of the action of the weapon salve’ (DSB). Caillet 4036; Ferguson I, p. 284; Gardner 237; Krivatsy 4140; Shaaber F150; Wellcome 2331.

3 parts in one volume, folio (305 x 196mm). Engraved title illustration on both parts of the Philosophia Moysaica, on the second title it is surrounded by descriptive text, 4 copper-plates in text, and 26 woodcut figures, extra-illustrated with a separate printing of the first title with engraving before letters bound in as a frontispiece, woodcut printer’s device on title of second work (frontispiece engraving, first quire and A1 rehinged, with a few minor marginal paper repairs). Contemporary vellum over boards (spine with early repair at head, split in lower upper joint restored, a little soiled and rubbed). Provenance: early manuscript corrections – two stamps erased from half-title and first title.

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