Three Exact Pieces of Leonard Phioravant Knight, and Doctor in Physick, viz. His Rational Secrets, and Chirurgery, Reviewed and Revived. Together with a Book of Excellent Experiments and Secrets, Collected out of the Practises of Severall Expert Men in Both Faculties, Whereunto is Annexed Paracelsus His One Hundred and Fourteen Experiments: with Certain Excellent Works of B. G. à Portu Aquitano. Also Isaac Hollandus His Secrets Concerning His Vegetall and Animall Work. With Quercetanus His Spagyrick Antidotary for Gun-Shot.

FIORAVANTI, Leonardo [PARACELSUS]

Edité par London: printed by G. Dawson, and are to be sold by William Nealand, 1652.

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4 leaves, 16, 1 leaf, 180, 3 leaves, 106, 5 leaves, 92 (i.e., 72), 6 leaves, 75 pp. Recent 1/4-leather & marbled boards. Skillfully washed. Several short tears repaired. NOTE: I can supply photos of selected pages (please request if interested). Very Good. There are four parts to this collection. I. "A Short Discourse of the Secrets", selections from Fioravanti's Secreti Rationali, Capricci Medicinali and Fisica. II. "Treatise of Chirurgery", selections from Fioravanti's writings, translated by Hester and published in 1580 under the title A Short Discours (see Durling 1579 for the contents). III. "The Excellencie of Physick and Chirurgerie", selections from various authors. IV. "A Hundred and Fourteen Experiments and Cures", Hester's 1596 translation of writings by Paracelsus and others (Durling 3518). John Hester "was a practical man, and he realized that he could best help the new chemical remedies (and his business) to prosper by acting as propagandist. From the 1570s until his death (c. 1593) he continued to pour out a flood of translations. At first he concentrated on Fioravanti's works, but later he turned to other authors such as Duchesne [Quercetanus] and Hermann and to spurious works by Paracelsus and others. Relatively uninterested in the deeper aspects of Paracelsism, he normally chose works to translate which were short on theory and long on lists of chemical recipes. . . . Hester's many translations were undoubtedly of the greatest importance in the introduction of chemical remedies into England, and through them many English physicians must have become aware for the first time of the different aspects of the new movement on the Continent. His work was much less important for the spread of Paracelsian thought in England, for although he translated a few minor works or extracts from the Swiss reformer, he instinctively chose items which were rich in recipes and conscientiously avoided the more obscure and less profitable works which set forth the Paracelsian doctrines. But even so, Hester's translations were the only English works ascribed to Paracelsus until the middle of the next century. . . . For this very reason, these translations were reprinted as there was nothing else available" (Debus, English Paracelsians, pp. 66-69). Sudhoff, Bibliographia Paracelsica 370 (with a complete bibliographical description and contents). Norman 797. Wing F953.

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• Titre: Three Exact Pieces of Leonard Phioravant Knight, and Doctor in Physick, viz. His Rational Secrets, and Chirurgery, Reviewed and Revived. Together with a Book of Excellent Experiments and Secrets, Collected out of the Practises of Severall Expert Men in Both Faculties, Whereunto is Annexed Paracelsus His One Hundred and Fourteen Experiments: with Certain Excellent Works of B. G. à Portu Aquitano. Also Isaac Hollandus His Secrets Concerning His Vegetall and Animall Work. With Quercetanus His ...
• Éditeur: London: printed by G. Dawson, and are to be sold by William Nealand, 1652.
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Very Good