Simplicius - Commentaria in quatuor libros Aristotelis De
Venise, Eredi Scoto, . Large quarto of 216pp. Later binding in half rigid parchment with corners, probably from the second half of the nineteenth century, smooth back with title handwritten in black Gothic letters, first leaves burnished, water stain in the side of the title page margin, stamp erased on the title page, beautiful engraving representing a portrait of a bearded man in profile on the title page, good and nice copy One of the most important comments of Aristotelian astronomy, the structure and the functioning of the universe and the sublunar world, work of the famous philosopher Simplicius, neoplatonist born in the current Turkey in 480 BC and died in Athens in 549 After Jesus Christ, of great value for his testimony on the astronomical knowledge at that time. Read More