CESALPINO, ANDREA. 1519-1603.


Quaestionum peripateticarum lib.V ... Daemonum inuestigatio peripatetica ... Secunda editio. Questionum medicarum libri II. De medicament. facultatibus lib.II ... Nunc primum editi. Venice: Giunta, 1593. 4to (207 x 148 mm). Small woodcut device on title and at end, with the final blank. Contemporary paper covered boards. Some light rubbing. Minor marginal staining.Second edition. "A greatly expanded second edition. The results of tying a vein and the centripetal flow in veins were first recorded by Cesalpino" (Garrison-Morton). "The second edition of Quaestionum peripateticarum, greatly expanded from the first, was printed with the second edition of Cesalpino's Daemonum investigatio peripatetica (first published in 1580) and with first editions of Quaestionum medicarum and De medicament facultatibus. Quaestionum peripateticarum was the first work to record the centripetal flow of blood in veins and the results of tying a vein" (Norman). An English translation, with commentary, of the portions of this work relevant to the circulation by Clark, Nimis and Rochefort is included with this copy. Durling 925; Garrison-Morton 756; Norman 431.