ALBERTUS MAGNUS.

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A good copy of the first edition of this remarkable collection of treatises on natural science by Albertus Magnus, edited by the Italian philosopher and physician Marcantonio Zimara (c. 1470-1532). A German Dominican friar, bishop and philosopher, Albertus Magnus (c. 1200-1280) is regarded as the most learned and prolific scholar of the Middle Ages, the only one to whom the epithet Magnus ( The great ) was applied. Known by his contemporaries as the Doctor universalis , he was later beatified and proclaimed Doctor of the Church. Albertus was active in almost all departments of learning, and the influence of his writings and commentaries on theology, logic, metaphysics, psychology, and the natural sciences was immense. He combined elements of Aristotelism, Neo-Platonism, Christian theology and Muslim and Jewish philosophy, which he formed into one great system; but his chief aim as a philosopher remained the reconciliation of Aristotelianism with Christian teaching. (PMM 17). The 18 works included in this volume constitute an extremely interesting and valuable selection of Albertus studies on natural science and philosophy, which complement his best known De animalibus and De mineralibus . Particularly outstanding is De vegetabilibus et plantis , a paraphrase in seven books of the pseudo-Aristotelian De vegetabilibus on the morphology and physiology of plants, also including Albertus personal digressions based on his own botanical observations. Albert succeeded in giving consi

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