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Item #118 Catalogue de livres. Michel LE PELETIER DE SOUZY
An Auction Catalogue of a Father and Son's Collection of Books.

Catalogue de livres.

Paris: Jacques Barois, 1741.
[2711 lots, priced.] The auction catalogue of the diverse and well-balanced collection of Michel Peletier de Souzy [1640-1725], director-general of fortifications for Louis XIV. The collection was managed and expanded by de Souzy's son, Michel-Robert, until his own death in 1740. In those fifteen intervening years.....

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Item #232 Initia doctrinæ physicæ. (Bound after three other books.). Philipp MELANCHTHON
The Reformation Cautiously Accepts Copernicus's Heliocentric Theories.

Initia doctrinæ physicæ. (Bound after three other books.)

Basel: Oporinus, 1550.
In the 1549 first edition of the Initia doctrinæ physicæ—essentially the first scientific textbook of the Reformation—Philipp Melanchthon refutes the heliocentrism of Copernicus with a single blow, invoking Ecclesiastes 4:5: “The earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets.” Moreover, he writes, referring to Copernicus.....

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