DICKINSON, Edmund.

Physica Vetus & Vera: sive Tractatus de Naturali veritate hexaëmeri Mosaici. Per quem probatur in historia Creationis, tum Generationis universae methodum atque modum, tum verae Philosophiae principia, strictim atque breviter à Mose tradi.

Added engraved title-page (small tear in blank portion) & several full-page engravings in the text.6 p.l. (incl. added engraved title), 340, [4] pp. Large 4to, cont. panelled sheep (some rubbing, head of spine with a small chip). London: H. Illife for H. Ribotteau, 1702. First edition of "the chief work of the author."­Duveen, p. 171. Dickinson (1624-1707), was elected honorary fellow of the College of Physicians in 1664 and was physician to both Charles II and James II. Dickinson was intensely interested in alchemy and chemistry and Charles II built him a laboratory under the royal bedchamber where the king, the Duke of Buckingham, and Dickinson performed experiments. Newton owned, annotated, and dog-eared a copy of Dickinson's alchemical book Epistola ad Theodorum Mundanum (Oxford: 1686). "The great work on which he spent his latest years was a system of philosophy set forth in [the present work]...In this laborious work, on which years had been spent, and part of which he had to write twice in consequence of an accident by fire to the manuscript, the author pretends to establish a philosophy founded on principles collected out of the 'Pentateuch.' In a very confused manner he mixes up his notions on the atomic theory with passages from Greek and Latin writers as well as from the Bible. The book, however, attracted attention, and was published in Rotterdam, 4to, 1703, and in Leoburg, 12mo, 1705."­D.N.B., V, p. 939. Fine fresh copy.

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