‎MIZAULD‎
‎ANTONII MIZALDI MONLUCIANI Galli, Medici, MEMORABILIVM, SIVE ARCANORVM OMNIS GENERIS, PER APHORISMOS Digestorum, Centuriæ IX. ET DEMOCRITVS ABDERITA,DE rebus Naturalibus, e Mysticis. Cum SYNESII, ET PELAGII Commentariis. Interprete de Græca lingua, Dominico Pizimentio Vibonensi italo. Præfatio, In omnes hosce libros. ‎

‎COLONIAE,Apud Ioannem Birckmannum AnnoD.M.LXXIIII. Cum Gratia & Prinilegio Cæsar Maiestat. ; 12° Reliure parchemin d époque. Mouillures claires tout au long. ex-libris cachet humide. [45], [3 feuillets non chiffrés blancs] 245 folios [1 blanc] : voir collation (signatures ) dans les photos.‎

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‎Mizaldus was born at Monluçon, in the Bourbonnais, studied at Bourges and Paris, where he graduated, and devoted himself to medical practice, in which he acquired much success and renown by the extraordinary cures which he effected. He was also distinguished in Mathematics and Philosophy, but when he was at the height of his fame he withdrew from practice to devote himself to the study of science and of the wonders and secrets of Nature, upon which he wrote many books. Niceron gives a list of fortv-one on meteorology, comets, forty-one astronomy (astrology), cosmography, sympathy and antipathy, almanacks, mathematics, agriculture, gardening, notable things, secrets of the moon, etc., etc. He died at Paris in 1578. Thuanus commends him for his learning and judgment. Other critics, however, have taken much less favourable view of his work, La Monnoye finding fault with his Latinity, Niceron complaininof his books being stuffed with false and useless notions, and Tessier quoting the opinion of the author of the Diversitez Curieuses, ii. p.11, who expresses his surprise at people being simple enough to put any belief in the ‘Centuriae’, seing that the book is full of trifles and superstitious nonsense, of which he gives an example. Ménard, the publisher, meditated an edition of his collected works, but the Mascurat (p. 135) prevented him carrying out this design by showing him that Mizaldus was a man ready to believe any fabrication : Quælibet à quovis mendacia credere promptus. The ‘Centuriae’ were first printed at Paris in 1566, and repeatedly afterwards. Editions appeared at Cologne in1572, 1573, 1574 which are of special interest, for they contain reprints of Pizimenti’s translation of the writings of Democritus, Synesius, and Pelagius on Alchemy. These I have considered in communications to the Glasgow Philosophical Society. FERGUSON II, 97‎