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De meteoris microcosmi libri quatuor. Cum index rerum, et verborum, 1621
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Florence, at the Giunta, 1621. In 2 °. & nbsp; Coat of arms of the dedicatee Ferdinand II on the title page, & nbsp; at the end of the volume, a typographic mark, text arranged on 2 columns, woodcut headbands and friezes, ornate initials, frontispieces with browning reinforcements, damp halos, several papers with restorations, last papers with defects, half-parchment binding of the 15th century. XX.
Florence, at the Giunta, 1621. In 2 °. & nbsp; Coat of arms of the dedicatee Ferdinand II on the title page, & nbsp; at the end of the volume, a typographic mark, text arranged on 2 columns, woodcut headbands and friezes, ornate initials, frontispieces with browning reinforcements, damp halos, several papers with restorations, last papers with defects, half-parchment binding of the 15th century. XX.
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Rare first edition of the Portuguese physician, philosopher, scientist who lived and worked in Florence and Pisa. & Nbsp; His medical and philosophical production is of particular importance. Since he arrived in Florence in 1609, he approached the Galilean intellectuals, was appointed private doctor (archiatrist) of the Grand Dukes, and advisor to the Sanitary Magistrate of Florence at the time of the plague of 1630-33, as well as professor of theoretical medicine at the University of Pisa. In the work De meteoris microcosmi & nbsp; and in other works, such as those on the plague used by the Florentine magistrate at the time of the epidemic, Castro argues, with a new theoretical formulation, that the constitutive material principle of things ( Archeus) would be one and indivisible.