NEU-ERÖFFNETE ;FFNETE SCHATZ-KAM[M]ER, VERSCHIEDENER NATUR- ...

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NEU-ERÖFFNETE ;FFNETE SCHATZ-KAM[M]ER, VERSCHIEDENER NATUR- UND KUNST-WUNDER (Published 1694) by Johann Ulrich Müller

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Nuremberg: Johann Hoffmann, 1694

Small 8vo, viii + 1016pp. + 44pp. Index. Full-leather hardcover binding. 5 raised bands, title on slip on spine, speckled edges. Frontispiece and various woodcut illustrations throughout book. With two fold-out diagrams.

Second edition of the compendium in the style of a ‘Hausvater’ book, which covers all areas of knowledge in 19 chapters: paediatrics, women's help, make-up remedies, medicines for the human body, historical amusement, hearing miracles, fire miracles, metals and mines, precious rocks, magnet miracles, the art of distillation, plant miracles, beer, animals, writing, grinding, mathematics, mechanical arts. - "I cannot trace this work in any reference book. It is most probably based on Porta's "Magia Naturalis", in any case it deals with similar subjects". (Duveen). “Magi Naturalis” was an early example of pre-Baconian popular science.