Fludd, Robert (1574-1637) Mosaicall Philosophy: Grounded upon the Essentiall Truth or Eternal Sapience.

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Fludd, Robert (1574-1637) Mosaicall Philosophy: Grounded upon the Essentiall Truth or Eternal Sapience. London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Prince's Armes in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1659. First English edition of Fludd's Philosophia Moysaica, folio, illustrated with text woodcuts, bound in full contemporary speckled calf, ruled and tooled in blind, dry, joints cracked, very aged cursory repair to foot of spine, 11 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.

Fludd was a well-known Paracelsian who pursued science and the occult. Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Rosicrucian apologist, and follower of the Hermetic Qabalah, Fludd also corresponded with Johannes Kepler on the relative merits of scientific and hermetic approaches to our understanding of the natural world.

[A]2-4, B-Z4, Aa-Oo4, Pp6, (First leaf, A1, blank and lacking).
http://estc.bl.uk/R6980
Estimate $5,000-7,000


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