Paris, Michel Vascovan, 1557.
Exotericarum Exercitationum Liber Quintus Decus de Subtilitate ad Hieronymum Cardanum.
First edition of one of the great intellectual debates of the 16th century, the Elder Scaliger’s wide-ranging critique of Cardano’s de Subtilitate. The work provides a capital example of the amorphous and disputatious nature of Renaissance intellectual life just before the scientific revolution would constrict knowledge to the preserve of..... More