Exotericarum Exercitationum Liber Quintus Decus de Subtilitate ad Hieronymum Cardanum

by Julius Caesar Scaliger

$1,850 · Offered by Martayan Lan

First edition

First edition of one of the great intellectual debates of the 16th century, the Elder Scaliger’s wide-ranging critique of Cardano’s de Subtilitate. The work provides a capital example of the amorphous and disputatious nature of Renaissance intellectual life just before the scientific revolution would constrict knowledge to the preserve of..... More

• Binding: Leather

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