Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu Magneticum naturae regnum, sive, Disceptatio physiologica de triplici in natura rerum magnete : juxta triplicem ejusdem naturae gradum digesto inanimato, animato, sensitivo : qua occultae prodigiosarum quarundam motionum vires & proprietates, quae in triplici naturae oeconomia nonnullis in corporibus noviter detectis observantur, in apertam lucem eruuntur, & luculentis argumentis, experientia duce, demonstrantur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680.

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Magneticum naturae regnum

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Magnetism--Early works to 1800.

Magnetism.

Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Science--Early works to 1800.

Science.

Physical Description:

20 unnumbered pages, 201 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 14 cm (12mo)

Other Title:

Disceptatio physiologica de triplici in natura rerum magnete

Athanasii Kircheri Regnum naturae magneticum in triplici magnete inanimato, animato, sensitivo dispositum

Regnum naturae magneticum in triplici magnete inanimato, animato, sensitivo dispositum

Place of Publication:

Amstelodami : Ex officina Johannis Janssonii à Waesberge & viduae Elizei Weyerstraet, 1667.

Notes:

Signatures: *¹⁰ A-H¹² I⁶ K².

Added engraved t.p.

Woodcuts: initials; tail-pieces.

With side- and shoulder-notes.

The first edition was published in Rome the same year; another ed. quoted with the same imprint, without date. Cf. Baker-Sommervogel, IV, 1065, 25.

Page 184-188 contain a letter in Spanish from Alexandro Fabiano, dated Los Angeles, 1665.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Cited in:

NUC pre-1956 297, p. 457

OCLC:

123099636