[Rarebooks] fa: 1679 JOURNAL DES SCAVANS - ELENA PISCOPIA - ROBERT HOOKE - VAN LEEUWENHOEK &c.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Ardwight Chamberlain

Le Journal des Scavans, de l'An MDCLXVII [1679]. Tome Septieme. Amsterdam: chez Pierre le Grand, MDCLXXX [1680]. Thick 12mo (12.5 cm) in full early vellum; 579 [i.e., 379] pp.; with seven plates, one of which is folding, and in-text woodcut illustrations and diagrams.

The Amsterdam printing of the second volume of the Journal des Scavans [Savants], the earliest scientific and academic journal published in Europe, its first issue, appearing in January, 1665, beating by two months the debut of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Some dust-soiling and mellow browning to the binding, boards a little bowed and bumped at the corners; dust-soiling/darkening to the edges of the text block, some cockling and toning to the leaves; else clean and sound, securely bound.

Features include VAN LEEUWENHOEK: Si l'on doit preferer l'usage du Cotton a celui du Linge en pensant les pluyes, tire d'une Lettre de M. Leewenhoek — ROBERT HOOKE: Extrait d'une Lettre ecrite de Londres a l'Auteur du Journal par M. Robert Hook, contenant les particularitez d'une machine rare & nouvellement inventee en Angleterre — CASSINI: Reglemente de temps par une Methode facile et nouvelle proposee par Monsieur Cassini… — ELENA LUCREZIA CORNARO PISCOPIA, the first woman to receive a doctorate (University of Padua, 1678): a brief article accompanied by a plate depicting a medallion struck in her honor — MICROSCOPY: Observations faite avec la microscope sur le Sang, le Lait, le Sucre, le Sel, & la Manne... par M. Leewenhoek de Delft and a description and woodcut of a microscope from "Monseigneur le Duc de ..." — Osservazioni Intorno alle torpedini fatte de Stefano Lorenzini Fiorentino (illus. with a plate) — GAMBLING & ODDS: Supputation des avantages du Banquier dans le Jeu de la Bassette, accompanied by a table — eclipses of Jupiter and the Sun; plus articles and/or plates related to medicine, theology, history, etc., etc., and a 35-page catalogue of scholarly books published in the year 1679.