NEMESIUS, Bishop of Emesa.

De Natura Hominis, Lib. Unus

:[title in Greek & Latin]. Greek & Latin text. Woodcut printer's device on title. 181, [11], 142 pp. 8vo, attractive modern vellum (occasional faint dampstaining). Antwerp: C. Plantin, 1565. Editio princeps of this physiological and psychological study of man, "which was highly esteemed during the Middle Ages. Nemesius was one of the first to propose that mental processes were localized in the cells or ventricles of the brain, and his comments on the heartbeat and pulse have been erroneously interpreted as a anticipation of Harvey's theory of the circulation."­Garrison-Morton 571­(1st Latin ed. of 1512). The medical theories of Nemesius (fl. 390-400 A.D.), one of the greatest Greek Christian philosophers of late Antiquity in the Middle East, were attacked first by Berengario da Carpi in 1521 and Vesalius in 1543. The present edition was edited by Nicasius Ellebodius, who also supplied the Latin translation. Fine copy with the errata on M3 recto. D.S.B., X, pp. 20-21. Durling 3329.

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