SENGUERDUS, A. [SENKWARD].- — Rationis atque Experientiae Connubium, continens Experimentorum Physicorum, Mechanicorum, Hydrostaticorum, Barometricorum, Thermometricorum, aliorumque, Compendiosam Enarrationem ususque Expositionem, & ad rationis incudem Revocationem. Aeris, aliorumque Phaenomenorum Detectioni, Illustrationi atque expositioni interventia. Accedit ejusdem Disquisitio de Tarantula, tertio edita. In usum domesticae institutiones.

Rotterdami, Apud Bernardum Bos, 1715. 8vo. W. engr. vignet on title & 3 large fold. engr. pls. at the end [sc. Bleyswijk] one of which browned. leaf S3recto w. a small engr. ill. mimicking an engraved title, w. impressum Bos. Contemp. brds., w. paper titleshield, lettered in ink. [*8, A - V8, X4]. (XVIV, 328 pp.). (Some medium yellowing & browning.). (Uncut, partially unopened.). (Upper paste down w. bookplate 'Petri Buoninsegni, 1702). BdH 4311: Pogg. II, 907: v.d.Aa VI, 192: (Amsterdam 1610 - 1668, Theology, philosophy, metaphyisics) In 1636 Professor of physics and metaphysics. In 1648 he succeeded Barlaeus in Amsterdam: BdH 4314 [Senkward]: DMB 1800/1: '... not only engaged in the teaching of philosophy, logic and physics... but he also applied himself to anatomy.': Banga, pp. 370 - 372: Pogg. II, 907: Jöcher IV, 504: Thijssen-Schoute pp. 433, 212, 248, 668, a.o. pl. Some of the subjects he occupied himself with are: experiments in physics, using barometers, thermometers, hygrometers, place and time, the earth and the heavens, stars, meteors, comets, minerals, motion etc. He was much influenced by Descartes.: Not in Ledeboer, Gesl. van Waesberghe.: Good copy. An added bonus is the treatise on the Tarantula, from pp. 281 - 328: