ARISTOTELES

Commentaria...Egidii Romani in libros de generatione & corruptione Aristotelis cum textu intercluso singulis locis. Questiones...super primo libro de generatione nunc quidem primum in publicum prodeuntes. Questiones...Doctoris Marsilii Inguem in prefa

      Woodcut initials & woodcut publisher's device at end. Two columns, Gothic type. 155, [1] leaves. Folio, attractive antique vellum-backed wooden boards (lower outer blank corners of a number of leaves repaired, occasional staining). [Venice: B. Locatellus for O. Scotus, 6 Sept. 1504].pAn important early edition of Aristotle's De Generatione et Corruptione; this is, I believe, the first to contain the three additional commentaries of Egidio Colonna (d. 1316), Marsilius of Inghen (d. 1396), and Albert of Saxony (ca. 1316-90). The De Generatione et Corruptione is one of Aristotle's most important writings on physics and natural science and was written during his years at Plato's Academy. Colonna (d. 1316), also known as Giles of Rome, was a disciple of Thomas Aquinas while a student in Paris. Colonna was the first Augustinian appointed to teach in the University of Paris and his deep learning earned for him the title of Doctor fundatissimus. In 1295 he was appointed Archbishop of Bourges by Pope Boniface VIII. "Although mainly a philosopher and theologian, Giles frequently dealt with problems relating to natural philosophy, notable in his commentaries on Aristotle. Moreover, he did so in a style distinctive enough to place him in the first rank of those thinkers who have made a positive contribution to the scientific thought of their time (see Maier, Die Vorlaufer Galileis, p. 2)... "[His commentary on] the De generatione et corruptione...became [a] classic, and was often utilized by such fourteenth-century physicists as Buridan and Marsilius of Inghen, who considered Giles the communis expositor of the De generatione."!D.S.B., V, pp. 402-03. Marsilius was a high official at the Universities of Paris and Heidelberg and his "chief contributions to science lay in the field of physics...His work places him among the Parisian masters who may be considered to be the precursors of Leonardo and Galileo and the formers of the new physics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries."!D.S.B., IX, p. 136. Albert of Saxony was a prominent teacher on the faculty of arts at Paris. "Albert's significance in the history of science is primarily that of a transmitter and an intelligent compiler of scientific ideas directly drawn from the works of Buridan, Thomas Bradwardine, William of Ockham, Burley, Oresme, and other writers in the medieval scientific tradition."!D.S.B., I, p. 94. Very good copy. No copy in N.U.C., OCLC, and RLIN. Adams A-1792!(false collation).. First Edition. Hard cover.