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Infinitum motum effe: non eundem quidem numero: fed alterum poft alterum: 7 alterum cuz altero Fm nu mey infinitú mouentiu: cop que mouenf:ita o mul t37 infinita fint mota pfequéter z simul babétia mo tu:ficut etiá accidere videtur in bis que nuc dicta fuit fic ergo forte refpondebit & instabit nobis aliquis. Sed contraboc dicimus q ft nos fupponamus f3 fu pradicta: id quod mouetur primú z mouet alia f3 locú corporale moueturiz neceffe eft & omne quod mouetur quod necefl: eft tagi:z per cófequés conti nuu effe fuo mouéti quod moueri fupponitur:co gi mediatuz ens id aliquod ipfuz tangat: tactus in ma tbematicis z in phificis ordinat ad vnü:ficut videm contingere in omnibus phifice mouentibus z motis: tuc poffibile erit q ex omnibus vel infinitis que mo/ učtur a feinuicé fupponarnus ficri vno:aut coringens aut continuu:q: nos fuperius iam diximus o nos no loquimur bic de mobili ptracto ad materiam: & ideo etia oiximus fupza: omne mobile eft diuifibile: non tame clementu qo eft mobile eft z nó fit diuifibile: q2 Diuifibile eft elementü fin g eft mobile: non tamen di Bilibile fm qelboc mobile ad materiam contractů: zita dicimus & omne mobile inquantú mobile conti nuabile eft cú omni mobili inquátú eft mobile:z fi ac cipiatur continuú cú ipfo nihil debet fequi impoffibi le Accipiamus igitur 9 Stingat vnuz fieri corpuser omnibus illis que pofuimus effe infinita: z fit illa ma gnitudo fiue continuāī infinitŭ signatuz per.a.b.c.d.7 motus eni congregatus ex ommibus motib'particula ria continuozu fit fignatus per.c.3.l.t.z nó eft differé tia quo ad propofitu noftru:fiue fit quelibet magnitu/ do figillata finita:fiue infinita:oümodo infinite ponif Fm numeru:q2 fiue numero fiue alio modo fit femper copofitü eft infinitu quod cóponit ex infinitis per nu mcrü:five fint infinita Fm vltima:fiue finita: ficut etia in pbificis eft oftenfum Convenis Fm ynå fimilitudi ne quodcis iftop ponatur & in tepote finito moue/ bitur infiniti quod in coponentib' fm vltima: aut cft finitü:aut infinitü:licet numero componetia femp fine infinita: vtrüqs box eft impoffibile:ficut in fexto de clarati eft:ibi eni probauimus o motus infiniti eft in/ finitus:co motus vná 7 effentiale babet diuifionez Fm oiuifione clus quod mouetur: tunc eius quod eft infiniti in coponentibus motus eft infinitus:quia non finitur tranfitus cius. Lü igitur impossibile fit motum boc modo infinita effe in tempore infinito: fequitur boc ex illa pofitione que dicit abire in infinitü:fi vnuz

mum mouens non intelligimus boc de primo quod cft finis mouens intentionem efficientis:quia finis eft culus caufa fit totum quod fit ab efficiente:fed intelli gimus de primo quod eft efficiens vnde est principió motus qo mouet z operaf ad boco motus fiat:2 cu/ tus actus eft motus in co o motus.Dic eni moués fi mul tépoze eft mouens cu co qo mouet:ita nibil eft mediú ipfop:boceni vcp cit q.f.talis motor imedia tus cft ci qo mouef in omni eo qo moucÉ 7 #jověti: 7 boc vocant quida effe locu ex loco:q: in codez loco: z vbi eft moloz zid quod mouetur.

Lap.iiij. iter motorë z id qỏ mouef nihil eft me diu in omnibus modis motus localis.

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Uia auté nos in demonftratioe predicta fup pofuimus ex oibus motozib z motis fi in genere confiderent fieri vnú: z boc non pot effe nifi imediata fint motozy id qö mouet:ita & inter ea nec plenum fit:nec vacuui:oportet nos bicoctermi nare o inter motoze z id qö mouetur ab ipfo nibil fir mediu fm omne motú in genere.Quia aut per fe ma nifeftü eft inter generans 7 generatu z proximu ni bil eft medium:quia virtus formatiua que eft proxi mum generans eft in femine:ideo no oportet nos mul tum follicitari vt probemus in generatioez coruptio ne que eft generationi contraria fed nos probabimus boc in bis in quibus eft occultü. Quoniam autem tres funt motus vt diximus in quinto: quozum vnus eft Fm quilibet locum: 7 alter Fm qualitatez:2 tertius Fm quacitate. Neceffe eft etiá o es que mouentur mo uent ad res trii generú:& neceffe eft motus. tres effe Fm genera. Motus igitur qui eft fm locú eft loci mu/ tatio:qui non Fin qualitatem eft alteratio:que non fm quantitatem eft augmentum vel detrimentum. Dica muo igitur primum de loci mutatióe: bic eft enim fm haturam primus motuuz:ficut probauimus in octauo butus fcientie.)Dicamus igitur omne illud quod fertur fm locum:aut mouetur iplum afcipfo: aut ab altero quod eft extrinsecum el. Si autem mouetur a felpfo ficut animalia mouentur: vel per fe videntur moueri ficut elementa:tunc manifeftum eft & motus fimal cum talibus z in feipfis mouentibus habent in fe mouens:z ita fimul erit mouens z quod mouetur: ita o inter ea nullum eft medium: neq3 plenum: neqs vacuum: quia cum in principio libzí probatum fit o omne quod mouetur habet motozem:opoztet z q il/ lud quod mouetur z non habet motozem extra: ba beat eum in feipfo: ita habet cum coniunctum fibist

ponitur moueri sbalio. Neceffariuz eft ergo o ftane medio) Quod auté mouetur ab alio mouetur qua

bit aliquádo fi vnd mouetur ab alio:ita o aliquod fit pzimu mouens:ita ipfus ab alio nullo mouet: opoz tet igitur per iftam rationé effe aliquod primum quod mouctur a mouente primo)Si autem forte aliquis di perito ifta demonftratio no valet:q: no cócludit fim pliciter:fed conceffso quodá falso:boc eft q oia moué tia z mota contiguentur: vel continuent dicemus non impedit noftram demonftratione: q: licet hoc fit fallum Fm corpora phífica in specie z forma accepta: tame eft poffibile rotingens Fm genus mobilis ing tu eft mobile vt diximus. Quádo autè poffibile z có tingens fupponit licet fit falfum nibil deber fequi im/ poffibile:boc aut fequitur impoffibile: z ideo nó fed/ tur boc ex affumpto falfo:fed potius ex positione illa qua ponitur abire in infinit o vnu femper moueatur ab alto. Eft etiá aduertendu o cum nos in tali ozdine mobilium z motozum probauimus effe aliquod pri

drifarie:omnes enim motus violenti qui motores ba bent extra:ad quattuoz modos communes reducun>' tur.Modi autem illi funt vocati pulfio:tractío: z ve/ ctto z,vertigo.Omnes enim alios modos motus vio lenti neceffe eft in bos reduct: contingere aliam ra tionern iftorum:ficut inferius oftendemus. Pullio au tem diuiditur in ovos modos fpeciales: quedaz cnim pullio eft impulfio:7 quedam vocatur expulfio impulfio quidem eft quando id quod mouetur non de ficit ab eo quod impellitur: led corporaliter coniungi tur ei per totum fpacium:7 per totum tempus impul fionis:ficut fi manu fuperpofita fuper lapidem lapi dem impellam ita q manus a lapide non feparetur:z tunc manifeftum eft & mouens ? motum coniungun' tur fine medio. Alive autem motus pulfionis eft ex pulfio. Expulfit uute eit quando pellens deficit ab co quod pellitur:z boc est quando piúmű tangés moués

3. ALBERTUS MAGNUS-Book vii., fol. 96. (Much reduced.)

Alexandria) lodestones were fixed in the roof so that an iron statue remained suspended in mid-air. This is one of the magnetic myths that enjoyed currency for many centuries. (See No. 47b.)

II. Vegetius, Renatus Flavius. (4th century.) De l'arte militare. Novamente tradotta. 991. 16mo. Vinezia, per B. di Vitale. Venice, 1524

12.

Early work on military tactics; no reference to electric or magnetic matters. Marbodeus. (1035-1125.) De lapidibus pretiosis enchiridion, cum scholiis Pictorii Villingensis. Eiusdem Pictorii de lapide molari carmen. 55+11. 12mo. no pl. (Parisiis, C. Wechelus.) Paris, 1531

Collection of Latin poems principally on gems. Two of them are of special interest, viz: the one on jet beginning folio 28, and the other on the lodestone, fol. 41. An English translation is printed in King's Precious Stones (London, 1870). Marbodeus (Marboeuf) was Archbishop of Rennes in Brit tany.

-See also 40. 13. Finaeus, Orontius. (1494-1555.) Protomathesis: opus varium ac scitu non minus utile quam jucundum nunc primum in lucem feliciter emissum. 8+207 1. ill. Folio. Parisiis. Paris, 1532 Treatise on arithmetic, geometry and cosmography. The last part of the work treats of the construction of clocks. The illustrations are numerous. 14. Peurbach, Georg von. (1423-1461.) Novae theoriae planetarum. 401. ill. 12mo. Venetiis, per Melchiorem Sessa. l'enice, 1534 Pamphlet on the motion of the planets highly considered in its time. 15. Stoeffler, Johann. (1452-1531.) Variorum Astrolabiorum compositio seu fabrica necnon eorundem usuum ac variarum utilitatum explanatio. 81.+771. ill. Folio. Moguntiae, P. Jordan. Mayence, 1535

16.*

Compendium of astronomy printed eight years before the death of
Copernicus.

Mela, Pomponius. (Flour. Ist cent.) De situ orbis, libri tres; cum
annotationibus Petri Joannis Oliuarii Valentini, 110 pp. Lu-
tetiae. Ex. officina Christiani Wecheli. 12mo. Paris, 1536
Famous work on geography written in the first century of the Christian

era.

-See also 80.

17. Mauro, Fiorentino. (1494-1556.) Sphera volgare novamente tradotta (from the Latin of J. de Sacro Bosco), con molte notande additioni di geometria, cosmographia, arte navigatoria, et stereometria, proportioni et quantita delli elementi, distanze, grandeze, et movimenti di tutti li corpi celesti. 56 1. ill. 4to. Venetia, B. Zanetti. Venice, 1537

This treatise was published six years before the death of
Copernicus. The earth is represented in one of the chapters p. 12 as the
center of the universe round which revolve the sun and planets. The
mariner's compass is represented on the title-page which also contains a
globe with the name Ametrica written for America. Page 57 has another
globe with the name properly written. A meridian line with compass oc-
curs on p. 61 and again on p. 84; see also p. 95.
-See also 2.

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18.* Strabo. (66-28 B. C.) Geographicorum libri xvii.

item, epitomae eorundem decem & septem de geographia librorum. 44 1.+549 pp.+12 1. Folio. Basileae, apud Joan Vualder.

Basle, 1539

The world as known to the ancients; celebrated work of the eminent Greek geographer.

19. Lully, Raymond. (Raymundus, Lullius.) (1235?-1315.) De secretis naturae siue quinta essentia libri duo. Accesserunt Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et rebus metallicis libri quinque. 4+183+4 1. ill. 12mo. Argentorati, apud Balthassarum Beck. Strasburg, 1541

This volume contains a work of Lully, the Enlightened Doctor, on medical
subjects and of Albertus Magnus on minerals. Properties of rubbed lyn-
curius, 1. 106; the lodestone, 1. 107; the flesh magnet, 1. 107; other magnetic
myths, 1. 107. Lully was the author of more than 400 works.
-See also 3.

20. Hartmann, Georg. (1489-1564.) Nine Astronomical charts. sq.
4to.
Nuremberg, 1542
The charts are not accompanied by text. Hartmann, vicar of the church
of St. Sebaldus, Nuremberg, wrote a letter to Count Albert of Prussia,
dated March 4, 1544, in which he clearly recognizes magnetic inclination,
or dip. The letter remained unpublished for nearly 300 years and could
not have been known to Robert Norman when he discovered the dip of the
magnetic needle in 1576 and which he records in his Newe Attractive, 1581.
See No. 66 (Ed. 1592). Hartmann was in Rome in 1510, where he found
the declination to be 6o E. This is probably the earliest determination of
magnetic declination on land; its discovery on sea is due to Columbus (Sept.
13, 1492), to whom we also owe the discovery of its variation with change
of place. According to Hellmann's Rara Magnetica, the first printed record
of magnetic declination is that of Francisco Falero in his Tratado del
Esphera, an exceedingly rare book published in 1535. See also Bauer's
"United States Magnetic Declination Tables and Isogonic Charts," 1902.
21. Ulstadius, P(hilippus). (Flour. 16th cent.) Coelum philosophorum
seu secreta naturae. 8 1.+95 1. ill. 12mo. Parisiis, apud
Viuntium Gaultherot.

Paris, 1544

Collection of medical prescriptions. First-edition, Freiburg, 1525.

22. Apianus, (Bienewitz) Petrus. (1495-1552). Cosmographia 3+66 1. ill. & charta cosmographica opera Aeg. Diesthemij. Antwerpiae, 4to. Antwerp, 1545

This treatise on cosmography enjoyed a high reputation in the 16th century; the first edition appeared in 1524. The word compass, compassus, occurs on fol. 1o and again on fol. 20. The illustration on fol. 10 shows a compass, one pole of which is connected by a dotted line with the pole-star. Fol. 30 contains a chapter on America in which Americus Vespucius is mentioned but Columbus is ignored. There are several interesting sectional (movable) figures.

23. Pontano, Giovanni Giovano. (1426-1503.) Liber de meteoris cum interpretatione Viti Amerbachii. 10 1.225 pp.+3 1. 12mo. Argentorati, apud Cratonem Mylium. Strasburg, 1545 Collection of 49 poems on natural phenomena,, rainbows, comets, winds, earthquakes, effects of thunder. Pontano one of the finest Latin poets of the fifteenth century.

such as hail, Hallam considers

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