Opusculum perpetua memoria dignissimum, De natura magnetis, et eius effectibus …

by Peter Peregrinus, Giovanni Battista Benedetti

$9,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Cologne: Johann Birkmann, 1562. First edition of this exceptionally rare, interesting, and notorious work – the second printed work on magnetism, preceded only by the Epistola de magnete of Peregrinus 1558 which is virtually unobtainable . Taisnier’s work, in fact, contains a plagiarism of Peregrinus, which it reprints verbatim, and of the equally rare Demonstratio proportionum motuum

• Binding: Hardcover

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