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The book is decorated with several small astronomical drawings by the author representing suns, moons, comets, eclipses, movements of planets... decorating this theoretical course in a very beautiful way.
We have been able to identify (perhaps clumsily) certain chapters of the work: "determiaone ad speciem et ad individum"; "percussion corpor elastoria"; Cometis (comets); Coetevis planetis (planets); De mundo elementari; transmutaone elementorum; Calore & Frigore (hot and cold); De Lumines (of light); Lumine modificato; gustu et odoratu (taste and smell) ...
Remarkable testimony to the state of astronomical knowledge at the end of the 17th century.
Context :
Until the 16th century, the commonly accepted conception of the universe showed the stars fixed on a sphere and the motionless Earth in the center (Geocentrism). It will take the combined efforts of several scholars to overturn this erroneous representation.
In 1687, Isaac Newton proposed a mathematical formulation of gravitation, and mechanical laws which made it possible to demonstrate Kepler's empirical laws. From the seventeenth century, heliocentrism gradually became the representation of the world commonly adopted in the West. At the beginning of the 18th century, observations definitively confirmed Newton's theory of gravitation, explaining very precisely the astronomical phenomena then observed.
Period binding, full calf, decorated spine, bears the title "Philoso. Tom II" stamped with gilt irons. Binding as is. Solid volume. clean interior. Well-preserved manuscript. Nice 17th century handwriting.
[17th Century Cosmology Manuscript]
"Secundus Cursus philosophiae Ludivici Sousis arundis"
1689
in-12 (17 x 11.5 cm); 352 pages
Subject: Manuscript of Cosmology of the XVIIth century Course Philosophy Astronomy Latin 67364337
