Sepher Eilim - Sepher Mayan Ganim - Sepher Mayan Chathum.

DELMEDIGO, JOSEPH SOLOMON OF CRETE.

Menassah ben Israel

Amsterdam

1628

FIRST EDITION. Three parts in one volume. Numerous astronomical and mathematical illustrations. Frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by W. Delff after a painting by C. Duyster. Titles within typographical border.

Vinograd, Amsterdam 20.

One of the great scientific books of Hebrew Literature, with treatises relating to geometry, algebra, chemistry, astronomy, physics, medicine and metaphysics. The Sepher Eilim is “The most sumptuously illustrated of early scientific works in Hebrew, and unique in printed Hebrew literature before the modern period” (National Library of Canada Catalogue, The Jacob M. Lowy Collection (1981) no. 80). See A. Neher, Jewish Thought and the Scientific Revolution of the Sixteenth Century (1986) pp. 251-2; H. Friedenwald, Jewish Luminaries in Medical History-Catalogue (1946) p.111; A.J. Karp. From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress (1991) pp. 199-200.