VAN HELMONT (Franciscus Mercurius). Kurtzer... - Lot 27 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

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VAN HELMONT (Franciscus Mercurius). Kurtzer... - Lot 27 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
VAN HELMONT (Franciscus Mercurius). Kurtzer Entwurff des eigentlichen Natur-Alphabets der heiligen Sprache : nach dessen Anleitung man auch Taubgebohrne verstehend und redend machen kann. Sultzbach, A. Lichtenthaler, 1667, in-32, (47, including frontispiece and title)-1 blank-167-1 blank, 37 figures h. t. (numbered: 1-22, 24, 23-25, 25-29, 31, 30, 32, 36, 33, 35), full modern vellum, smooth spine, title page). François-Mercure van Helmont (1614 in Vilvoorde - 1699 in Berlin) was a scholar, philosopher, chemist, physicist and physician. He was an advisor to the palatine counts Karl Ludwig (1617-1680) and Christian Auguste de Sulzbach (1622-1708). He was also interested in alchemy and the Kabbalah. The Alphabet of Nature, Van Helmont's first work, is one of the many works published on language in the early modern period. The "language debate," as it has been called, was a subject of major interest to such figures as Reuchlin, Rabelais, Paracelsus, Agrippa, Postel, Boehme, Kircher, Hobbes, Descartes, Comenius, Spinoza, Locke, Boyle, Newton and Leibniz. These were profound questions about the natural or artificial character of language, about its divine or human nature. The answers given led to a series of consequences that could lead to arrest, imprisonment and even execution. It is therefore not surprising that van Helmont wrote his book while imprisoned in the dungeons of the Roman Inquisition. Very rare.
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