KIRCHER (Athanase)

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KIRCHER (Athanase)
Magneticum naturae regnum sive disceptatio physiologica. Rome, Ignatius of Lazarus, 1667. In-4, soft vellum, ink title on the back (Binding of the time). Caillet, n°5782. - Merrill, number 21. Original edition, decorated with a frontispiece engraved on copper. Kircher's latest publication on magnetism: the book is a complement to the Magnes sive De arte magnetica (1641). Kircher tries to explain several obscure phenomena of physics and natural history through the one and only principle of attraction and repulsion. Copy in period vellum, in which 2 handwritten sheets have been bound at the top. Large wetness in the lower part of the first half of the volume, many leaves are uniformly rusted.
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