Author Dobrzensky, Jacobus Joannes Wenceslaus, active 1659-1684

Title Nova, et amaenior de admirando fontium genio : (ex abditas naturae claustris, in orbis lucem emanante) philosophia ... Perenne fluere jussa / auctore Iacobo I. W. Dobrzenski ... opusculum quod non solum curiosis ingenijs ob plurimas et novas hydraulicas machinas aeri delicatissimè incisas voluptatem adfert, sed et philosophos exoticis quibusdam erudit discursibus, et mathematicis campum aperit alias plures, et ingeniosiores excogitandi inuentiones.

Imprint Ferrariae : Apud Alphonsum et Io: Baptistam de Marestis, 1659.

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Location Call Number Status
 Stauffer Rare Book Room  TC144 .D637 1659  LIB USE ONLY
Description [26], 121, [2] p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Note Signatures: [dagger]2, a2-b2, A2-P3.
Title vignette, head and tail-pieces, initials.
Engraved t. p., 1657; t. p. imprint, dedication, and colophon (altered?), 1659.
Binder's title: De fontibus philosophia.
Spine title: "Dobrzensky."
Indexed In Neville, R. G., Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library, volume 1, page 372 CHF #F
Gift Roy G. Neville; purchase; 2004.
Provenance Provenance: Owner's armorial bookplate on front cover pastedown, "Henry Thomas Ellicombe."
Subject(s) Hydraulic engineering -- Early works to 1800.
Hydraulics -- Early works to 1800.
Hydrodynamics -- Early works to 1800.
Fountains -- Early works to 1800.
Meteorology -- Early works to 1800.
Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Related Title De fontibus philosophia.