[Rarebooks] FS: A commentary on Aristotle's "Posterior Analytics" by Philoponus. Venice: 1560

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(SCIENCE) Philoponus, Johannes. EXPOSITIO... IN LIBROS ANALYTICOS ARISTOTELIS POSTERIORES. Nunc Denique a Martiano Rota Post Omnes Aliorum Editiones Graeco Exemplari Collata... Venice: Ex Officina Valgrisiana. 1560 (colophon dated 1559). Folio. 118,(2)pp. Double column text. Large woodcut printer's device on title page and on verso of the final leaf of errata. Numerous woodcut text diagrams. Modern 1/2 brown morocco, gilt, over marbled boards. Title page lightly soiled and minor worming at inner blank margin of first 2 leaves.     $1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)

A commentary on Aristotle's "Posterior Analytics" by the 6th century writer Philoponus. It deals with scientific methodology in pursuit of general and eternal truths. This edition of Philoponus' work was edited by the Italian philosopher Julianus Martianus Rota. Adams P1047.
 

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