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Io: Chrysostomi Magneni ... Democritvs reviviscens, sive, De atomis ad excellentissimum senatvm mediolanensem : addita est Democriti vita cum indicibus necessarijs

Magnen, Jean Chrysostôme, 17th cent · 1646 · Papiae : Apud Io: Andream Magrium · 22 pictures

Democritvs reviviscens is a 1646 Latin treatise on atomic theory by the Milanese physician Jean Chrysostome Magnen, printed at Pavia for the Milan senate and drawing on the ancient philosopher Democritus. The four pictures are geometric woodcut diagrams of circles, chords, inscribed hexagons and lettered points, which a designer could use as clean compass-and-ruler line motifs.

Democritus, approximately 460 B.C.-approximately 370 B.C · Physics -- Early works to 1800

Internet Archive · Fisher - University of Toronto · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library