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Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and Elizaeus Weyerstraten, 1669. In 2nd. 2 parts in one vol. With 2 beautiful allegorical figured front doors finely engraved in copper, full-page portrait of Leopold of Austria, decorated drop caps, numerous tables in the text, including the Arbor Philosophica, 2 movable figures with volvelle on pp. 13 and 173, 5 plates folded several times, first leaves partly detached from the body of the text and worn, gore of humidity, browning and some ink stains, small gap & nbsp; Bb4 paper, original parchment binding, author on the spine and handwritten title on the spine, tearing at the hinges and some stains & nbsp;
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First edition. The work of the Jesuit Kircher represents the research in the century. XVIII of a universal language that scientists and philosophers should have used to describe and circumscribe all knowledge in a unified system. The author, through the most complex combinatorial operations, tries to identify a way to go back to the divine archetype. He was not indifferent to the combinatorial speculations of the kabbalists, at the basis of which lay the belief that the entire sequence of letters of the Torah hid (infinite anagram) the true name of God. Caillet II, 5771; De Backer-Sommervogel IV, 1066; Thorndike VII, 567; Ferguson I, 467.
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