Martin, Benjamin (1704-1782) (& others)

Antropografia, o sia trattato del corpo humano. Cavato dalla Grammatica delle scienze philosophiche ... tradotta dall'Inglese in Francese, e dal Francese in Italiano. Edizione seconda da Venezia 1753 (11 ll.). Corsini (Eduardo) [1702-1765] De chilificatione [etc.] Excerpta ex 'Institutionibus philosophicis'. Bologna. 1742 (14 ll.). [Anon.] Si spiegano vari phenomeni di Phisica (8 ll.). Illustrated with a few small marginal pen-drawings of scientific apparatus, etc.

c. 1750

1 volume 35 ll. (last 2 bl.). 4to. 23 × 17 1/2 cm. Modern boards.

Purchased 1930.

The author was a mathematician and general compiler: the 'Philosophical Grammar' was published in 1735 [see the Dictionary of National Biography]. E. Corsini was professor of logic at Pisa in 1735, and of ethics and metaphysics in 1746. In 1754 he became head of the Piarist Order in Rome.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).