Contemplationum physicarum
Subtitle: sectiones tres
By: autore Marco Frederico Wendelino
Publisher: ex officina Rogeri Danielis
Published: 1648
Place of publication: Cantabrigiae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 648
Subjects: Biology; Early works to 1800; Cosmology; Astrology
Notes: Engraved t.p. showing Philosophia and her handmaidens, Aristotle, the "Doctores scholastici," and an assembly of scholars.

Title vignettes or publishers mark with "Hinc lvcem et pocula sacra" on borders.

Ornamental initials at beginning of dedications and texts.

V. 1 has "Index autorum qui in prima sectione hujus operii allegantur," p. [14-18] with tailpiece. "Index capitum proemii," p. [15].

Bound in contemporary modern calf, red leather label and gilt lettering on backstrip.

The physical vol. lacks front fly leaf.

Last two fly leaves of the physical vol. are made up of sheets from an old Latin text.

Bound with Wendelin, M. F., Admiranda Nili, Cantabrigiae, 1648.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Quae physiologia generalis, de principiis & affectionibus corpus naturlii : non tantùm praeceptis methodicis & perspicuis explicata, sed & plerariunq ; omnium controversiarum à physicis veteribus & recentibus agitatarum plenà tractatione, & modestâ, secundùm rationis normam, decisione illustrata ; ubique insertis naturae amoenitatibus, quibus caedium è disputationibus ortum diluitur, & Lectoris animus demulcetur.; title: v. 2. Quae cosmologia, metodicus praeceptis comprehensa, plenaque tratatione controversiarum de mundi causis subjecto loco, & adjunctis affectionibus, finitate, unitate, figurâ, perfectione, pulcritudíne, corruptibilitate, duratione & futurâ renovatione, tandémque accuratâ quaestionis de mille annorum regno discussione illustrata.; title: v. 3. De corporibus coelestibus, continens uranologiam et astrologiam praeceptis methodicus explicatam, omniúmque ad hanc materiam pertinentium controversiarum plenâ tractatione illustratam.