Medicine.- Charleton (Walter) Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana; or, A Frabrick of Science Natural, upon the Hypothesis of Atoms, The First Part [all published], first edition, woodcut initials and headlpieces, engraved illustrations, lacking 2I4 and 2S3&4, title linen-backed, a little stained and browned, ink stamps to title and to a few other ff., bookplate of Fox Pointe Collection, 20th century calf, [Krivatsy 2394; Wellcome II, p.329; Wing C3691], folio, Newcomb for T. Heath, 1654.
⁂ "The Physiologia became a book of minor reputation but was read by such important natural philosophers as Boyle and Newton. It was an important part of Gassendi's program to purify and render acceptable to Christians the atomoic philosophy." - DSB. Scarce and often incomplete.
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