at the Bonhams auction, which will be held on June 8th of the current year in New York (USA), for sale will be put up first printed on parchment Edition of the outstanding ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle about animals (de Animalibus ), having seen the world in Vienna in distant 1476. Approximate Cost of the book - $ 300,000-500,000.
Treatises Professional thinker animal history, animal parts and animal occurrences, DE ANIMALIBUS united under the general name served people with the only source of scientific knowledge in the field of zoology: from the time of antiquity to the XVIII century. And several times translated into Latin.
The first attempts to interpret the centuries-old texts were undertaken in the XIII century by the Scottish scientist, mathematician, as well as the Astrologer Michael Scott and the Flanders of the theologian Wilhelm Mbec. In the early 1450s. Greek Humanist George Trapezundsky fulfilled the order of the Roman Nicholas v in order, but he was unsuccessful and did not receive broad fame. In 1454, the Byzantine Humanist Feodor Gaza, who spent over 15 years, was taken out of the case, but in the end he deserved the fame of the most authoritative translator de Animalibus.
Aristotle (384-322 BC) is considered many The first real scientist in the history of mankind. He laid the foundations of logic, left a noticeable mark in the development of ethics, aesthetics, psychology, political science, biology and other sciences.
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