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Io. Bapt. Portae Neapolitani Magiae naturalis libri XX. / ab ipso authore expurgati, & superaucti, in quibus scientiarum naturalium diuitiae, & delitiae demonstrantur ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615.
- Standardized Title:
- Magiae naturalis
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Early works to 1800.
- Science.
- Industrial arts--Early works to 1800.
- Industrial arts.
- Magnetism--Early works to 1800.
- Magnetism.
- Cryptography--Early works to 1800.
- Cryptography.
- Penn Provenance:
- Mendelsohn, Charles J. (Charles Jastrow), 1880-1939 (autograph) (donor)
- Mendelsohn, Esther Jastrow (donor)
- Pomelli(?) (autograph)
- Fenea(?) (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 303 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, portrait ; 31 cm (folio)
- Other Title:
- Magiae naturalis libri XX
- Jo. Bapt. Portae Neapolitani Magiae naturalis libri XX
- Place of Publication:
- Neapoli : Apud Horatium Saluianum, D.D.LXXXVIIII. [that is, 1589]
- Contents:
- (from t.p.) I. De mirabilium rerum causis
- II. De varijs animalibus gegnendis
- III. De nouis plantis producendis
- IIII. De augenda supellectili
- V. De metallorum transmutatione
- VI. De gemmarum adulterijs
- VII. De miraculis magnetis
- VIII. De portentosis medelis
- IX. De mulierum cosmetice
- X. De extrahendis rerum essentijs
- XI. De myropoeia
- XII. De incendiarijs ignibus
- XIII. De raris ferri temperaturis
- XIIII. De miro conuiuiorum apparatu
- XV. De capiendis manu feris
- XVI. De inuisibilibus literarum notis
- XVII. De catoptricis imaginibus
- XVIII. De staticis experimentis
- XIX. De pneumaticis
- XX. Chaos.
- Notes:
- Signatures: a-b⁴ A-2P⁴.
- Title within ornamental border, with motto: Aspicit et inspicit; portrait of author on t.p. verso.
- Woodcuts: ill., initials, port., and head- and tail-pieces.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Early ms. used as binding waste.
- Cited in:
- Galland, J.S. Historical and analytical bibl. of the lit. of cryptology, 148
- Shulman, D. Annotated bibl. of cryptography, 3
- Riccardi, P. Bib. matematica, II, column 307
- Grässe, V, p. 417
- BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 536
- Marshall, R.G. STC Italian, II, p. 638
- OCLC:
- 12680200
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