Author: ORNOIKE (Lynn)

Description

ThORNOIKE (Lynn) Latin treatises on comets between 1238 and 1368 A.D. Edited by Lynn Thorndike. [Includes the commen— t-artes of Thoma Aquinas and of Albertus Magnus on Aristotle’s Meteorology in an English translation, and the Latin text with an introduction of the following; Dc Essentia, motu, et ignificatione cometarum by Aegiiius of Lessines; selections from the Suinma de astris by Gerardu3 de Sllteo; writings on the comet of 1299 by Peter of Lirioges; accounts of comets by Geoffrey of Meaux; a description of the cornet of 1368 by John of Legriano, and three anonymous works.J pp. viii. + 274. 8°. Chicagg, 1950.

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