pdf - Roger Gaskell Rare Books

Pagel mentions Ruland’s Lexicon as evidence for the long survival of gnostic
symbolism in alchemy in his entries such as ‘Water is Adam’ and ‘Earth is
Eve’ (Pagel, Paracelsus p. 210, n. 20).
There has been some confusion between the works of Martin Ruland the
elder (1532–1602) and Martin Ruland the younger (1569–1611). Ferguson and
Krivatsy attribute the Lexicon to the father, Krivatsy noting that the dedicatory
epistle is signed by the son but still insisting on the father’s authorship.
However Thorndike gives it to the son as does N. H. Clulee in DSB stating
categorically that the Lexicon is among the work ‘undoubtedly by Martin
Ruland the younger’ (Thorndike VII, p. 160; Clulee p. 606b).
165
SANTORIO, Santorio (1561–1636)
De statica medicina et de responsione ad staticomasticem.
Aphorismorum sectionibus septem comprehensa.
Venice: apud Marcum Antonium Brogiollum, 1634.
12mo: a12 A–F12 (blanks a12 and F12), 84 leaves, V. [12] 71 [1]
including the blanks. Woodcut device on title.
132 x 75mm. Stains on Wrst few leaves of text, otherwise a good copy.
Binding: Contemporary olive morocco, gilt panelled sides, marbled
paper pastedowns, gilt edges. Head and tail of spine chipped, rubbed,
corners worn.
Provenance: Signature ‘P. Guenault. D.M.P.’ on title and inscription
‘Ex dono D. de Ribodon’ on endleaf, both seventeenth­century; a
long note on Santorio and Guenault in a nineteenth­century hand
on endleaf, perhaps that of Paul Schmidt whose bookplate is on the
pastedown.
Third edition (Wrst 1614). Krivatsy 10236.
Santorio introduced quantitative methods into biological research. It was
through this collection of aphorisms that his work became widely known.
Enormously popular it went through a large number of editions.
The note on the endleaf concludes: ‘On voir au bas du titre le signature de
P. Guénault, celui qui Guy Patin appelait “empoisonneur chimique”, parce
qu’il prescrivait l’emploi de l’antimoine.’
For the Wrst edition see Garrison–Morton 573; Norman, One Hundred Books
Famous in Medicine 25.
166
SANTORIO, Santorio (1561–1636)
De statica medicina et de responsione ad staticomasticem
aphorismorum sectionibus octo comprehensa.
Leiden: apud Davidum Lopes de Haro, 1642.
12mo: † 10 A–E 12 F 6 G 2 , 78 leaves, pp. [20] 135 [1] (last page blank).