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Cosmologia - Albertus de Saxonia

Quaestiones in libros Aristotelis De caelo et mundo., 1492

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Venice, Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 24 October 1492. Publisher: Hieronymus Surianus. In 2nd. 52 cc. Beautiful woodcut initials, text in two columns, a handwritten gloss, some restorations (particularly on the first sheet), some small worm holes, slight marginal halo, binding from a later period in half parchment, titles within red inserts on the spine, slight defects .  

Specialist Notes

Influential commentary by Albert of Saxony (1320-1390), German philosopher and mathematician, as well as Bishop of Halberstadtal, on Aristotle's most important astronomical treatise: "De Caelo et Mundo".