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DOI Artikel:Girsztowt, Aleksandra: The book collection of the Loitz family in the Elbląg library: Current State of research, overview of the collection, and a supplement to the list of prints
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Aleksandra works by the Arab astronomer Mashallah ibn Athari.22 Most valuable of all is
Girsztowt the work by Georg Joachim Rheticus, the first published in print disseminat-
ing the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus (who was a relative of the
Loitz family23); another important item is the Euclid.24 The works by Vitruvius
on architecture (fig. 3) were also to be found in this collection.25
Fig. 3. Marcus Vitruvius, Per locundum Solito Castigatior Factus Cum Figuris Tabula..., library
of Simon Loitz in the Elbląg Library, photo: Elbląg Library
In addition to works from the field of the natural sciences, the Loitz family
also had a collection of medical books, including works by Otto von Brunfels,26
Constantine the African, volumes presenting the achievements of Hippocrates
and Galen in the field of medicine, and, first and foremost, the impressive work
by Andreas Vesalius,27 in the form of a convolute also comprising the work
by Galen; this is kept today in the museum in Elbląg.
22 Messahalla, De elementis et orbibus coelestibus, liber antiąuus ac eruditus Messahalae
laudatissimi inter arab es astrologi..., Noribergae 1549, ref. SD.XVI.1578.
23 Georg Johannes Rheticus, Ad clarissimum virum D. loannem Schonerum, de libris revolu-
tionum eruditissimi viri, &Mathematici excellentissimi,prerendiD. DoctorisNicolai Torunnaei.
Gedani 1540, ref. SD.XVI.478.
24 E.g. Euclidis Magarensis Mathematici Clarissimi Elementorum geometricorum Libri XV,
Basilae 1558, ref. SD.XVI.2271.
25 Marcus Vitruvius, Per locundum Solito Castigatior Factus Cum Figuris Tabula..., Venetiis
1511, ref. SD.XVI.2301.
26 Otto von Brunfels, Theses seu communes loci totius rei Medicae, Argentorati 1532,
ref. SD.XVI.1041.
27 Andreas Vesalius, De corporis humanifabrica libri septem, Basileae 1555, ref. SD.XVI.2434.
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Girsztowt the work by Georg Joachim Rheticus, the first published in print disseminat-
ing the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus (who was a relative of the
Loitz family23); another important item is the Euclid.24 The works by Vitruvius
on architecture (fig. 3) were also to be found in this collection.25
Fig. 3. Marcus Vitruvius, Per locundum Solito Castigatior Factus Cum Figuris Tabula..., library
of Simon Loitz in the Elbląg Library, photo: Elbląg Library
In addition to works from the field of the natural sciences, the Loitz family
also had a collection of medical books, including works by Otto von Brunfels,26
Constantine the African, volumes presenting the achievements of Hippocrates
and Galen in the field of medicine, and, first and foremost, the impressive work
by Andreas Vesalius,27 in the form of a convolute also comprising the work
by Galen; this is kept today in the museum in Elbląg.
22 Messahalla, De elementis et orbibus coelestibus, liber antiąuus ac eruditus Messahalae
laudatissimi inter arab es astrologi..., Noribergae 1549, ref. SD.XVI.1578.
23 Georg Johannes Rheticus, Ad clarissimum virum D. loannem Schonerum, de libris revolu-
tionum eruditissimi viri, &Mathematici excellentissimi,prerendiD. DoctorisNicolai Torunnaei.
Gedani 1540, ref. SD.XVI.478.
24 E.g. Euclidis Magarensis Mathematici Clarissimi Elementorum geometricorum Libri XV,
Basilae 1558, ref. SD.XVI.2271.
25 Marcus Vitruvius, Per locundum Solito Castigatior Factus Cum Figuris Tabula..., Venetiis
1511, ref. SD.XVI.2301.
26 Otto von Brunfels, Theses seu communes loci totius rei Medicae, Argentorati 1532,
ref. SD.XVI.1041.
27 Andreas Vesalius, De corporis humanifabrica libri septem, Basileae 1555, ref. SD.XVI.2434.
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