Aristotele - De Physico Auditu - 1540

Aristotle. Aristotelis Stagiritae de Physico Auditu. Libri Octo. Venice: apud Hieronymum Scotum, 1540. A graceful and rare sixteenth-century edition of the Aristotelian work on hearing and, more generally, on Physics understood as the study of nature. Collected in eight books are Aristotle's thoughts on the philosophy of nature and the Four Causes that explain every natural phenomenon: material, formal, efficient, and final. Finally, the commentaries by the Cordovan philosopher Averroes and by the famous Italian thinker and physician Marcantonio Zimarra. Binding in half-leather. Calligraphic title on the spine. Printer's mark engraved on the title page and on the colophon. Pages 177–180 are missing. Size 15 x 11 cm, 468 pages. In excellent condition.