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Opus philosophie naturalis

Albertus, de Orlamünde, 1230-, Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280, Farfengo, Battista, active 1489-1500, printer, Giles, of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, approximately 1243-1316, Albertus Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1490 · Brescia, Baptista Farfengo, 10 Sept. 1490. · 3 pictures

Opus philosophie naturalis is a natural philosophy treatise printed in Brescia by Baptista Farfengo in 1490, a scholarly incunable compiled from works attributed to Albertus Magnus and Giles of Rome for university readers. Its pictures are woodcut diagrams: a circular wind-and-direction chart with dense block lettering, a profile head marking the three ventricles of the brain, and a printer's device with a cross, a hourglass, and initials in a diamond, useful for designers wanting early medical or cosmological diagram styles.

Brescia · Early works to 1800 · Incunabula · Italy · Philosophy

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