1599 THEOLOGICAL MATHEMATICAL NATURAL WORK AGAINST JEWS HERETICS antique VELLUM

De neomeniis Salomonis perpetvis.
Libri Dvo.
Quorum prior totam neomeniarum rationem ex sacrae Scripturae fonte ... explicate;
Posterior vero Calendarium Gregorianum exacte complectens ...;
Opus Theologicum, Mathematicum, & Naturale contra Hebraeos, & Haereticos.
Ad SDN Clementem VIII. P.O.M.

(Theological, Mathematical, and Natural Work against the Hebrews and Heretics)

by Paolo Minerva

2 parts in 1 volume.

Vici Aeqvensis, J.J. Carlinum & A. Pacem; 1599

32, 224 p.; pp. 225-331, 21 pp. with 2 woodcut title vignettes, illustrated.

Woodcut initials and numerous Tables.

Original limp vellum with manuscript title to the spine. lacks ties some toning.

Size 6 by 8.5"

- CNCE 23778 -

First edition

Rare work by the Dominican P. Minerva (1560-1645) on the Gregorian and Hebrew calendars, directed against the Jews and heretics.
Also contains (on p. 276) a short note on the observations of N. Copernicus.

Little is known about the Dominican Paolo Minerva (Bari, 1560 -Naples, 1645), teacher, preacher and author of works on natural philosophy.
Thorndike traced an anti-Copernican strand in his De praecognoscendis (1616), due to the reading of Gilbert's De magnete.
In his early days, he was a friend to Giovan Vincenzo Della Porta and his De neomeniis (1599) reveals that he supported the Copernican tables underlying the calendar reform.
(M. Miele, Le certezze Anticopernicane di Paolo Minerva e le loro radici, in Bruniana & Campanelliana, Vol. 11, No. 1, p. 207).

Text in Latin
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