Le Grand, Historia natuae, variis experimentis...1673 ASTRONOMIE PHYSIK ZOOLOGIE

Le Grand, Antoine.
Historia naturæ, variis experimentis & ratiociniis elucidata.
Secundum principia stabilita in Institutione philosophiæ edita ab eodem
authore. London, J. Martyn 1673. 8°. [11] Bl., 416 S., [8] Bl. mit
gestoch. Frontispiz und einigen Holzschnitten im Text. Pergamenteinband
der Zeit mit handschr. Rückentitel.

Krivatsy 6805. Thorndike VIII, 286.
Wellcome III, 480. Nicht bei Houzeau-Lancaster. – Erste Ausgabe des
naturwissenschaftlichen Kompendiums. Verfasst von dem Descartes-Schüler
Antoine Le Grand (1629-1699), Professor in Douai, der sich lange Zeit in
England aufhielt und dort die Cartesianische Lehre verbreitete. – „His
History of Nature … was in nine parts. The first argued against the
existence of a vacuum. The second, on qualities, held that even occult
qualities might be explained in terms of the figures of corpuscles and
pores. The third was a history of the universe with Le Grand’s opinion
of the influence of celestial on inferior bodies. The other six dealt
with the four elements, minerals, meteors, plants, animals, and man. Le
Grand denied the influence of the moon, that the basilisk killed by its
glance, that the corpse bleeds at the approach of the murderer, and that
wearing laurel makes one immune from lightning. On the other hand, he
affirmed that an entire forest sprang up after great rains, and that
exceptionally delicate cucumbers could be grown by soaking the seeds in
milk“ (Thorndike). – Einband fleckig, freie Vorsätze fehlen, gutes
Exemplar.