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work. He followed this with a work of his own The Anatomie of Urines... or,
The Second Part of our Discourse on Urines (London, 1625). Both works are
dedicated to Charles I as Prince of Wales. These works ‘expose the fallacies
of diagnosis by means of an examination of urine at the hands of ignorant
persons, and attack three kinds of trespassers on the medical domain –
unlicensed quacks, meddlesome old women, and, above all, clergymen.’
(John Symons in ODNB).
Hart was a native of Edinburgh, possibly the James Hart who graduated
MA at Edinbugh university in 1599. He travelled in Europe and gained his
MD from the university of Basle in 1609. He returned to Britain shortly
afterwards and was established as a physician in Northampton by 1612. His
principal work is Klinike, or, The diet of the diseased (1633) a work on diet and
regimen in the Hippocratic tradition but far in advance of its time.
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GALILEI, Galileo (1564–1642)
Systema cosmicum... in quo quatuor dialogis de duobus maximis
mundi systematibus, Ptolemaico & Copernicano... ex Italica lingua
Latine conversum. Accessit appendix gemina, qua SS. scripturae dicta
cum terrae mobilitate conciliantur.
Strasbourg: impensis Elzeviriorum, typis Davidis Hautti, 1635.
4to: ):( 4 a4 A–3T4 , 268 leaves, pp. [16] 495 [25]. Engraved title on ):(1,
‘Dialogus de systemate mundi’ with imprint ‘impensis Bonaventurae
et Abrahami Elzevir bibliopolar[sic] Leydens.’, portrait of Galileo on
):(4v signed ‘Jac. ab Heyden sculpsit’; woodcut initials and headpieces
and diagrams printed in the text.
200 x 158mm. Most gatherings fairly heavily browned as usual, but
index and prelims on better paper and clean; a good copy.
Binding: Contemporary vellum boards with yapp fore edges, initials
and dates stamped on upper board. A little soiled; the counters of two
of the stamped letters have fallen out leaving holes in the vellum.
Provenance: Inscription on engraved title ‘Sum ex libris [name erased,
followed by a price]’; M. Th Müller, inscription on title dated 1687;
initials E. W. D. stamped on binding with date 1693; Max Harrwitz,
Buchhandlung & Antiquariat, Berlin. Pagel purchased the book from
Francis Edwards Ltd, London, 14 Dec 1964.
First Latin edition, a translation the Dialogo (1632) with additional
material. Sometimes catalogued under the wording on the engraved
title, ‘Dialogus de systemate mundi’. Carli–Favaro 148; Cinti 96;
Caspar, Kepler, 88; Riccardi I, i, col. 512; Willems 426.
The rare Latin edition of the Dialogo, translated by Kepler’s friend Mathias
Bernegger. It was printed in Strasbourg by David Hautt for Bonaventure and
Abraham Elzevier in Amsterdam. Publishing the original edition in Italian,
and in the form of an entertaining dialogue, Galileo was aiming at a wider
audience than merely academic astronomers and other natural philosophers.
1000 copies of the Wrst edition were printed and the printer claimed he could