1661 Digby Philosophy Magnetism Alchemy Medicine Theatrum Sympatheticum Magic

1661 Digby Philosophy Magnetism Alchemy Medicine Theatrum Sympatheticum Magic

 

Kenelm Digby was a 17^th-century English writer whose treatises on natural philosophy have made lasting impressions and contributions to Atomism. Digby believed in the concept of atoms making up the whole of the universe but practiced it in a more Aristotelian, philosophical way. Digby’s philosophies were published throughout the 17^th-century including this 1661 printing of “Theatrum Sympatheticum”. It was in this book that “Digby first described his well-known weapon-salve, or ‘powder of sympathy.’”

 

This work offers the scientific and pseudo-scientific studies in magnetism and alchemy, pseudo medicine, and other topics of curiousity. While Digby’s “Oratio de pulvere sympathetico” is the most notable inclusion in this work, it includes writings from Goclenius, Helmont, Fludd, Kircher, Sennert, and still others.

 

Item number: #22584

Price: $950

 

DIGBY, Kenelm

 

Theatrum Sympatheticum In quo Sympathiæ Actiones variæ, singulares & admirandæ tàm Macro-quàm Microcosmicæ exhibentur, … Opusculum lectu jucundum & utilissimum; Digbæi, Papinii, Helmontii, aliorumque recentiorum scriptorum prolata exhibens & trutinans, atque ipsius Pulveris Sympathetici germanam & optimam descriptionem simul exponens

 

Amstelædami: Thomae Fontanus, 1661. First edition.

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [12], 259, [1]
• References: DNB V, 970
• Language: Latin
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~5.5in X 3in (13.5cm x 7.5cm)
• Very rare and desirable with auction records and price comparisons at upwards of $2,000

 

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