AN ECLECTIC LIBRARY.

History of Science.

☛See the page on Magic as well, since “natural magic” is more or less the name for experimental science in the late Middle Ages and into the Renaissance.

Batman uppon Bartholome, his booke, De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and ammended: with such additions as are requisite, unto every severall booke: taken foorth of the most approved authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. London: Imprinted by Thomas East, dwelling by Paules wharfe. 1582. —A translation of a book that, according to Stephan Batman, the translator, was first set forth in 1360; it is an encyclopedia of all scientific knowledge from the late Middle Ages.

Algebrae compendiosa facilisque descriptio, qua depromuntur magna Arithmetices miracula. Authore Ioanne Scheubelio Mathematicarum professore in academia Tubingensi. Parisiis, Apud Gulielmum Cavellat, in Pingui Gallina, ex adverso Colegii Cameracensis. 1551.

Tychonis Brahe Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica. Wandesburgi, 1598. —Illustrated with colored woodcuts of all Tycho’s astronomical instruments.

Learned Tico Brahæ his Astronomicall Coniectur of the new and much Admired 🌟 Which Appered in the year 1572. Printed at London by B. A. and T. F. [rest of page damaged; 1632]. —“Translation of p. 787-816 of the author's Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata.” A rebus adds real class to your title page.

P. Gasparis Schotti Physica curiosa, sive, Mirabilia naturæ et artis libris XII. comprehensa, quibus pleraque, quæ de angelis, dæmonibus, hominibus, spectris, energumenis, monstris, portentis, animalibus, meteoris, &c. rara, arcana, curiosaque circumferuntur, ad veritatis trutinam expenduntur, variis ex historia ac philosophia petitis disquisitionibus excutiuntur, & innumeris exemplis illustrantur. Herbipoli, Sumptibus Johannis Andreæ Endteri & Wolffgangi Jun, Hæredum. Excudebat Jobus Hertz Typographus Herbipol. Anno 1662.

Letters on Natural Magic, addressed to Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by Sir David Brewster, K.H. London: John Murray and Thomas Tegg, 1842. —Remarkable illusions, properties of chemistry, etc, explained by one of the era’s best scientists.