Reisch, Gregor: Finé, Oronce:

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MARGARITA PHILOSOPHICA, RATIONALIS, MORALIS PHILOSOPHIAE PRINCIPIA, DUODECIM LIBRIS DIALOGICE COPLECTENS, OLIM AB IPSO AUTORE RECOGNITA: NUPER AUT AB ORONTIO FINEO DELPHINATE CASTIGATA & ... The first revised and improved edition (fifth authorized edition, ninth edition overall) of Reisch's fundamental and hugely influential encyclopedia, here complete with both of the frequently lacking folding maps. First published in 1503, Margarita Philosophica was a masterwork of medieval knowledge, compiling a vast array of subjects from both ancient and recent authors and illustrating their teachings with hundreds of woodcuts and diagrams. Gregor Reisch was a Carthusian prior, confessor to Emperor Maximilian I, and rector of the University of Freiburg. He compiled this text in the 1490s and had it published a few years later; it immediately became a great success. His book was used as a textbook in universities across Europe, and saw no fewer than twelve editions, many of them pirated, before the end of the century. This is the first edition with authorized corrections and additions, made by French astronomer and cartographer Oronce Finé. His additions appropriately include a well-illustrated chapter on the construction and use of astrolabes.Written in the didactic style, the book is organized as a discussion of the seven classical liberal arts: the trivium (logic, rhetoric, and grammar) and the quadrivium (arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy). These are supplemented with five a

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