Elementorum physiologiae, seu Philosophie naturalis libri septem
Subtitle: in duos tomos distincti, uniuersam artem methodikōs conplectentes
By: authore Ioanne Monheimo. Argumenta librorum sequens pagina indicabit
Publisher: Ioannes Gymnicus excudebat
Published: 1542
Place of publication: Coloniae
Language: lat
Subjects: Science; Physics; Astronomy; Botany; Vegetable Materia medica; Handbooks, manuals; Guaiac; Syphilis
Other titles: Elementorvm physiologiae, seu Philosophie naturalis libri septem.; Elementorum physiologiae.; Philosophie naturalis libri septem.
Notes: The word "methodikōs" in title transcription of volume 1 is transliterated from the Greek.

Title page to voume 2 reads: "Tomvs secvndvs elementorum physiologiae, seu Philosophiae naturalis, tres libros continens: primus anima[lia], secundus plantas, tertius animalia describit" and has imprint: Coloniae haeredes Gymnici excudebant anno M.D.XLIIII [1544]

The plant section in volume 2 includes a section on the use of guaiacum "found in western Spanish Islands near America" for syphillis, plus additional plants from the Indies.

Pagination: volume 1: [68] leaves; volume 2: [304] leaves.

Signatures: volume 1:A-H⁸ I⁴ (I4 verso blank); volume 2: [alpha]-[iota]⁸ A-Z⁸ (S3, S5 missigned R3, R5) a-i⁸ (e4 missigned d4) k⁸ (-k8)

Errata: volume 1, leaf [68] recto.

Woodcut printer's vignette on title pages; initials.

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), M 6152.

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, M-1603.

Purchase; 2018; 19-112.

Text primarily in German with some words in Greek and headings in German for the names of plants.