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Lot 230
[NUTRITION - SPONTANEOUS GENERATION] LICETI, FORTUNIUS. De his, qui diu vivunt sine alimento libri quatuor, in quibus ... de aliment...
... Patavii [i.e. Padua]: Apud Petrum Bertellium, 1612 ; [BOUND WITH] De spontaneo viventium ortu ... In quibus de generatione animantium, quae vulgo ex putri exoriri dicuntur... Vicenza: Ex typographia Dominici Amadei, apud Franciscum Bolzetam, 1618 Contemporary calf, rebacked. 12 x 8 1/4 inches (31 x 21 cm); the first-listed work (bound second) [3] ff., 323, [1] [30] pp. [N.B. lacking final blank]; [68], 199, [1], 159 (i.e. 162 pp.). Rather crudely rebacked, the first and last blank lacking from the first, small losses to the lower margin of the last signature; final blank lacking from the second work.
Fortunio Liceti was born in Genoa into a medical family (his father was a doctor and Fortunio, who was born prematurely, was helped by a makeshift incubator). He taught philosophy at Padua and Bologna, but ultimately took the post of the first professor of theoretical medicine at the former school. He was a friend of Galileo, and a remarkable polymath and a prodigious writer. The first work here pertains to the achievement of longevity by fasting, with a great deal on nutrition in general. The second is a study of spontaneous generation, the Aristotelian doctrine that life (primarily insects) could be generated in the process of decomposition, though it discusses fungi and other forms of life that appear to originate spontaneously.
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