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TAURELLUS, Nicolaus.

De rerum aeternitate. . . in quibus placita Aristotelis, Vallesii, Piccolominei, Caesalpini, Societatis Conimbricensis, aliorumqu. discutiuntur, examinantur atque refuntantur.. Accessit Rodolphi Goclenii Epistola ad authorem / Kosmologia [greek]. Hoc est physicarum & metaphysicarum discussionum: de mundo libri II. adversus Franciscum Piccolominum philosophum celeberrimum, aliosque peripateticos.

Paul Egenolph / Johannes Schönfeld: Marburg / Amberg, 1604.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002747

De rerum aeternitate. . . in quibus placita Aristotelis, Vallesii, Piccolominei, Caesalpini, Societatis Conimbricensis, aliorumqu. discutiuntur, examinantur atque refuntantur.. Accessit Rodolphi Goclenii Epistola ad authorem. Marburg: Paul Egenolph, 1604. [Bound with:] Kosmologia [greek]. Hoc est physicarum & metaphysicarum discussionum: de mundo libri II. adversus Franciscum Piccolominum philosophum celeberrimum, aliosque peripateticos. Amberg: Johannes Schönfeld, 1603. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo (162 x 96 mm). [12[, 684, [8]; [20], 243 [1] pp., including index and final blank at end of first work, woodcut printer's device to first title, gatherings of first work partially unopened. Bound in contemporary pigskin, spine with 3 raised bands, boards with elaborate blind-tooling including noble coats of arms on covers (some soiling of leather, slight rubbing of extremities, ties gone), green-dyed edges. Light browning of text, occasional minor spotting. Provenance: Bibliotheca Bernhardina Vratislaviensis (old ink stamps to first title recto and verso and second title verso, ink shelf mark to first title). Handsome copy. ----

VD 17 23:294904N; Ziegenfuss-Jung II, p.681. - TWO VERY RARE works ranging from medicine to cosmology, physics to philosophy. Taurellus (1547-1606) was professor of medicine at Basel and Altdorf and is best known for his works on medicine, ethics and philosophy. He attacked the pantheism of the Italian Aristotelians and created a Protestantly oriented philosophy, which sought to reconcile Luther's teachings about original sin and faith with philosophy, first in Philosophiae triumphus (1573). Taurellus identifies as main opponents Francesco Piccolomini, the Jesuit school of Coimbra, more generally the sixteenth-century Aristotelianism, and also Cesalpino.
He "developed a method that made natural philosophy dependent on metaphysics and in turned demonized natural philosophers living in Catholic lands. Accordingly, Taurellus believed his philosophy successfully combined theology and the study of nature. Even though this goal was similar to that of Jesuits and other Catholic orders, Taurellus distinguished his philosophical views on God from the Coimbrans' commentators and other theologically minded philosophers. His attacks, however, were most vehement and relentless against lay Italian philosophers who held that natural philosophy should be independent from considerations of the divine. He found two Italians to be the most egregious: Francesco Piccolomini and Andrea Cesalpino, both of whom he saw as producing a naturalistic version of philosophy that overlooked key questions of faith. For Taurellus, the dangers of naturalism were remedied by a consideration of metaphysics that corresponded to theology.The most extensive analysis of Taurellus' work depicts him as shifting Ger-man philosophy from being dominated by studies of logic to studies of meta-physics, a change that became fully realized in the work of Leibniz, who indeed was familiar with Taurellus' writings." (C. Martin: Subverting Aristotle. Religion, History, And Philosophy in Early Modern Science, Baltimore, 2014 p.96). - Visit our website for additional images and information.

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