Tommaso Cornelio - Progymnasmata Physica.

<p>Terza non comune edizione dell'opera maggiore di Cornelio, uno dei principali divulgatori della filosofia cartesiana nel Meridione. <em>Memorie degli scrittori cosentini </em>161-165; <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Riccardi </span>I, 374 con l'errata data del 1681; <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Thorndike </span>VII, 662-663: &laquo;Tommaso Cornelio, a Cartesian of Cosenza, issued <em>Progymnasmata physica</em> at Venice in 1663, republished at Frankfurt in 1665, Venice, 1681 [ma 1683, N.d.R.], Leipzig, 1683, Jena, 1685, and with his complete works at Naples in 1688. He divided them into seven exercises which dealt respectively with 1) method, recommending the mathematical study of nature, and chemical and mechanical principles; 2) with the beginnings of natural phenomena where he found Cartesian explanation the best; 3) with the universe, &quot;where&quot;, says the reviewer, &quot;he seems to be in a maze&quot;; 4) with the sun, holding that light is in the sentient, just as pain is in the wounded and not in the sword; 5) with human generation; 6) nutrication; and 7) life&raquo;. Manca a <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Krivatsy</span>.</p>