German missionary active in China (1576-1630)

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Johann Schreck Terrentius : le scienze rinascimentali e lo spirito dell'Accademia dei Lincei nella Cina dei Ming / Isaia Iannaccone.

Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus, seu, plantarum, animalium, mineralium Mexicanorum historia / ex Francisci Hernandez ... relationibus ... conscriptis a Nardo Antonio Reccho ... collecta ac in ordinem digesta. A Joanne Terrentio [Jo. Fabro, et Fabio Columna] ... notis illustrata.--Phytosophicarum tabularum ex frontispiciis naturalis theatri Principis F. Caesii ... desumpta prima pars.

Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus, seu, plantarum, animalium, mineralium Mexicanorum historia, ex Francisci Hernandez relationibus conscriptis a Nardo Antonio Reccho collecta ac in ordinem digesta. A Joanne Terrentio notis illustrata. Phytosophicarum tabularum ex frontispiciis naturalis theatri Principis F. Caesii desumpta prima pars.

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