Ocellus Lucanus. De Universi Natura, Greek and Latin text, half-title, occasional marginal water-staining, browning to a few gatherings, small tear (2B4) neatly repaired, 18th-century vellum boards, gilt stamp of Birmingham Medical Institute to spine, a little rubbed, 4to, Bologna, Typographia Ferroniana, 1646. ⁂ Important edition of the De universi natura, a Pythagorean work composed in four books in the second century BC, and attributed to Ocellus Lucanus. This treatise on the nature of the universe and the origin of man enjoyed a wide popularity and was largely responsible for the revival of ancient hermetic wisdom in the Renaissance. This 1646 edition is edited by the Bolognese philosopher Carlo Emanuele Vizzani (1617-1661).
Ocellus Lucanus. De Universi Natura, Greek and Latin text, half-title, occasional marginal water-staining, browning to a few gatherings, small tear (2B4) neatly repaired, 18th-century vellum boards, gilt stamp of Birmingham Medical Institute to spine, a little rubbed, 4to, Bologna, Typographia Ferroniana, 1646. ⁂ Important edition of the De universi natura, a Pythagorean work composed in four books in the second century BC, and attributed to Ocellus Lucanus. This treatise on the nature of the universe and the origin of man enjoyed a wide popularity and was largely responsible for the revival of ancient hermetic wisdom in the Renaissance. This 1646 edition is edited by the Bolognese philosopher Carlo Emanuele Vizzani (1617-1661).
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