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  • Branch of philosophy is exactly "—Astronomy"

Vittorio Venturelli translated and commented on Aristotle's Meteorology for the duke of Urbino Francesco Maria II Della Rovere. The work opens with a dedicatory epistle followed by a complete accessus which has the function of a general introduction…

Paper; ff. II, 501; mm. 266_200. Title on spine: 'Meteora d'Arist. del Venturelli'. Beautiful dedicatory copy; follows the layout of contemporary printed books.

Paper; mm. 141x200; ff. 10, 2 (old page numbers: 178-187). Cursive handwriting. The ms. was part of ms. Pal. 1095; on f. 10v, autograph note by Francesco Redi. Modern binding.

Paper; misc.; ff. [2], 40, [1]; mm. 325_225.

Paper; misc., comp.; ff. III, 356, I; mm. 223_164. Later binding in cardboard. 8 units.

Paper; ff. I, 60, [4], 54, [2], 29, [4]; mm. 100_153. Original binding in parchment; title on spine: 'ARIS-

The oration by Niccolò Aggiunti (who was one of Galileo's disciples and the successor of Benedetto Castelli as professor of mathematics in Pisa since 1626), held in front of the Tuscan princes, deals with a strong defence of Galileo Galilei mainly…

The Trattato is a summary of Aristotelian mistakes in the field of natural philosophy, with a special focus on cosmography and heavens. The author, Giovanni Maria Benedetti, refers to several Aristotelian passages as well as to more recent authors…

The anonymous translation of Thomas Aquinas's commentary on Aristotle's On the Heavens and On generation and corruption is part of a wider project which includes vernacular translations of other Aristotelian commentaries by Thomas (On interpretation…
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