Alberti Dvreri pictoris et architecti praestantissimi de vrbibvs, arcibvs, castellísque condendis, ac muniendis rationes aliquot, praesenti bellorum necessitati accommodatissi...
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In 1525 Durer published an introduction to geometry and in 1527 a text on military fortifications both in German. After his death the two texts were published in Paris in Latin in 1535. Geometry was an expertise needed by artists in Northern Europe to capture the life-like perspectives of Italian Renaissance art.
Ioannis Tagaultii ambiani Vimaci, parisiensis medici, De chirurgica institutione libri quinque
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A popular surgical manual published in 1543 written by Jean Tagaut, a Protestant physician (ca. 1517-1560). Includes woodcut illustrations of surgical instruments, orthopedic devices, and skeletons. Very tight original binding.
Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolvtionibvs orbium cœlestium, libri VI: habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & ædito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restituto
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Copernicus first published On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres in 1543. Haverford's copy includes a few old annotations along with pencil markings indicating the passages to be censored according to the decrees of the Inquisition in 1616 and 1620. The printer's name is inked out on the title page. He too was judged to be in error by Pope Paul IV in his Index of Prohibited Books of 1557.
De secretis mulierum libellus, scholiis auctus, & amendis repurgatus ... Item de mirabilibus mundi .
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This text forms part of a long literary tradition referred to as the "Secrets of Women." Early versions date from the 13th century and were attributed falsely to the theologian Albertus Magnus. The texts are concerned with women's fertility and reproduction. By the time this edition was printed in 1571, physicians no longer relied on its explanations of gynecology. However, the text was still a resource for clergy who drew from it ideas about women's imperfect natures. The text is bound with a copy of Aristotle's Problemata.