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ARISTOTELES -- PHILOPONUS, JOANNES GRAMMATICUS. In libros priorum resolutivorum Aristotelis commentariae annotationes. Venice, H. Scotus, 1548. 84 lvs. W. woodcut printer's device on ti., charming woodcut initials & num. text-diagrams. Fol. Cont. vellum. (Bind. soiled and a bit warped, ties fail, first lvs. wormholed, w. sm. stamps, upper outer corner moulded throughout).
Joannes Gramm. Philoponus (late 5th c./2nd h. 6th c.), commentator on Aristotle, grammarian and theologian. - DSB VII, p. 134: "Philoponus' main significance for the history of sciences lies in his being, at the close of antiquity, the first thinker to undertake a comprehensive and massive attack on the principal tenets of Aristotle's physics and cosmology, an attack unequaled in thoroughness since Galileo." - Hoffmann II, 440; This edition not in Adams.€ 300
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