Peripateticarum Quaestionum Libri Quinque Bound With Patrizi Francesco Discussionum

by Andrea Cesalpino

$65,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Venice; Venice: Giunta; Dominico de’ Franceschi, 1571. First edition, and a fine copy in a contemporary binding, of Cesalpino’s very rare work which coined the phrase “circulation of the blood” circulatio sanguinis, f. 111v and provided the theoretical basis for Harvey’s experimental and quantitative treatment in De motu cordis 1628 . “Cesalpino preceded Harvey in

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