{"product_id":"1597-medical-hippocratis-coi-prolegomena-et-prognosticorum-vellum-antique-16th-c","title":"1597 MEDICAL Hippocratis coi Prolegomena et prognosticorum VELLUM antique 16th C","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"notranslate\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHEURNE, Jan van (1543-1601)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hippocratis coi Prolegomena, et prognosticorum libri tres. \u003cbr\u003eCum Paraphrastica versione \u0026amp; brevibus \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLugduni Batavorum; 1597\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Original limp vellum, manuscript title at the spine. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eText in Greek, commentary in Latin. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eApproximately ten uniformly browned leaves, a few serifs. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn old small red wax seal has been partially removed at the title page\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003efirst edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12 preliminary pages, 285 pages, plus 9 pages of index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Size 6 by 8 1\/2\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e---------------------------------------------\u003cbr\u003eJan van Heurne was a Dutch physician who studied in Paris under Duret and the renowned Ramus (Pierre de la Ramée).\u003cbr\u003eHe then visited Italy where he met Capivaccio, Mercuriali, Guilandini, and the famous Fabrizio d'Acquenpendente.\u003cbr\u003e(New Universal Biography from the Earliest Times) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is in the Dialectica that one finds the exposition of the Ramist 'method,' unique and universal, presented by its inventor not as a philosophical system, but as 'a direct and easy art of teaching,' illuminated by 'the highest light of reason,' according to a descending dialectic, inspired by the Platonic allegory of the cave, even if, little by little, Aristotle becomes more present, as a support for a construction nevertheless founded on a break with post-medieval Aristotelianism.\" (A. Coron, In French in the Text 51). \u003cbr\u003eThe Protestant Pierre de La Ramée (1515-1572) was one of the victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"notranslate\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e==============================\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e","brand":"Motka","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67898204389678,"sku":null,"price":642.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0692\/8017\/0286\/files\/208054-004jpg.jpg?v=1793581428","url":"https:\/\/motka.store\/products\/1597-medical-hippocratis-coi-prolegomena-et-prognosticorum-vellum-antique-16th-c","provider":"Motka","version":"1.0","type":"link"}