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A famous Dutch scholar on writing, gymnastics, music and painting
VOSSIUS, Gerardus Joannes.De quatuor artibus popularibus, grammatistice, gymnastice, musice, & graphice, liber.      Amsterdam, Johannes Blaeu, 1650. Small 4to. Later blue wrappers, title label pasted on spine. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials. (14), 94, (12) pp. First edition of a posthumously published work on writing, gymnastics, music and painting by the famous Dutch scholar and scientist Gerardus Joannes Vossius (1577-1649). Franciscus Junius edited this book and wrote the dedicatory letter with which it starts. In the first chapter Vossius discusses the division of arts and scineces. The second chapter deals with reading and writing and how to teach it to children. Vossius describes in chapter three the history of gymnastics, as practised by the Greek & Romans, and he gives five types of execises: running, jumping, discus throwing, javelin throwing and wrestling. The fourth chapter is on ancient and contemporary music. In the last chapter Vossius compairs the arts of painting and rethoric, and he gives a brief history of painting mentioning classical, Renaissance and 17th century painters. In the same year ''De quatuor artibus popularibus, grammatistice, gymnastice, musice, & graphice, liber'' was also published by Blaeu in a collected edition titled ''De quatuor artibus popularibus de philologia et scientiis mathematicis libri tres'' together with two other parts: ''De philologia liber'', and ''De universae mathesios natura & constitutione liber; cui subjungitur chronologia mathematicorum''. A second edition appeared in Amsterdam, also at Blaeu, in 1659, a third in 1660. Good copy.- (Library stamp on title and at the end; edges. sl. rubbed).
Rademaker, Life and work of Gerardus Joannes Vossius, 32 and pp. 322-324; Cf. Bierens de Haan 5142-5144 (collected edition); Poggendorf II, 1235 (collected edition); cf. Sotheran, 1st supplement, 702 (collected ed.); not in Thimm, nor Kunst op schrift.
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