Lot 210
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COMENIUS [Johann Amos]
Fortunae Faber. Diogenes Cynicus. Abraham patriarcha
Auction: 8 July 2003 at 12:00 BST
Description
... [with] Physicae ad lumen divinum reformande sysnopsis ... [with] Pansophiae diatyposis ichnographica & orthographica delineatione ... [with] Disquisitiones de caloris et frigoris natura ... 6 works in one volume, each with a seperate titlepage, but the first three (i.e. Fortunae Faber. Diognes & Abraham) with a common titlepage as well as individual titles, contemporary vellum, 12mo., Amsterdam: apud Petrum van den Berge, 1662, etc.
Note: Renourad 1023 for the Pansophiae
Collection of works by the Moravian educational pioner Comenius or Komensky (1592-1670), the last bishop of old church of the Moravian and Bohemian Brethren. Amongst the works included in the present collection is his Pansophiae (Amsterdam: L. Elzevir, 1645) a term by which he meant the acquisition of universal knowledge which he believed to be not only the proper aim of education but also a means of uniting men in a single brotherhood. It is a development of his Pansophiae produmus, originally published in 1630, and which was designed to serve as an introduction to a kind of encyclopaedia of which he had conceived the plan and which he pursued (with out success) throughout his life. Included also are two didactic plays (Diogenes and Abraham) and his Physicae in which he sets out his own unqiue Chsritian approach to science calling for a reconcilliation between Scripture, nature and reason by means of what he called "syncretistic" comparison.