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	LICETI, Fortunio, De natura primo-movente libri duo: in quibus ex Aristotelis doctrina diligenter ostenditur ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		LICETI, Fortunio, De natura primo-movente libri duo: in quibus ex Aristotelis doctrina diligenter ostenditur Primi-Moventis nomen & rationem proprie convenire finali caussae generatim, coelo seu mundo, intelligentiae cuique coelo assistenti, ac summo Deo...
		First edition of Liceti's treatise on the primum mobile of Aristotle, published in response to the more subversive 'modern' ideas concerning the origin of movement in the universe such as Galileo's Dialogo 1632.
		Fortunio Liceti (1577-1657), a friend and adversary of Galileo, was an Aristotelian university man '"of great reputation" (as one can read in [Galileo's] Dialogue), the great teratologist, professor of philosophy and medicine at the University of Bologna.
	www.polybiblio.com /watbooks/1641.html (343 words)

	Catalogue Four I-L
		Liceti’s work was still under review in works on malformation in the 19th century.
		Liceti likened nature to an artist who, faced with some imperfection in the materials to be shaped, ingeniously creates another form still more admirable.
		On this view, monsters revealed nature not as frustrated in her aims, but as rising to the challenge of recalcitrant matter, a constricted womb, or even a mixture of animal and human seed.
	www.liberantiquus.com /cat4/i-l.html (3022 words)

	Orribili, meravigliosi mostri
		Fortunio Liceti con il suo De monstrorum natura, causis et differentiis occupa un posto molto importante nella storia dei mostri.
		L'opera di Liceti parte da una definizione del mostruoso che rimanda al significato originario dell'etimologia: col termine "mostro" si indica tutto ciò che suscita ammirazione, sorpresa e meraviglia, in modo sia negativo che positivo.
		Liceti opera una classificazione dei mostri distinguendo mostri uniformi e multiformi; questi gruppi, a loro volta, sono suddivisi in 10 classi.
	www.linguaggioglobale.com /mostri/txt/31.htm (806 words)

	LICETI, Fortunio; Controversiae de cometarum quiete, loco boreali sine occasu, parallaxi Aristotelea, sede caelesti, ...
		LICETI, Fortunio; Controversiae de cometarum quiete, loco boreali sine occasu, parallaxi Aristotelea, sede caelesti, and exacta theorie Peripatetica: in quibus prima nemesis meas ad Aristotelem interpretationes ab oppositionibus cuiusdam mathematici liberat, alienasque ab eodem intrusas radicitus evellet; ex rei natura, ex Aristotelis doctrina, and ex Astronomiae fun...
		Liceti here defends the Aristotelian doctrine of comets as sublunary phenomena, and challenges the interpretation of the 'new astronomy'.
		Liceti tries to account for parallax and other evidence against his position.
	www.ilab.org /db/detail.php?booknr=231632176&source=vialibri&lang=en (248 words)

	From 'Monsters' to Modern Medical Miracles - Age of Superstition (15th through 18th-centuries)
		Images of conjoined twins from some of the more popular works by Jacob Locher, Fortunio Liceti, the respected surgeon Ambroise Paré, and the anonymous author of Aristotle's Compleat Masterpiece are displayed below.
		An early classification of deformities, this is the first illustrated edition of Fortunio Liceti's work, originally published in 1616.
		Liceti reports that the girls shared one abdomen and one set of reproductive organs.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /hmd/conjoined/age.html (524 words)

	LICETI, Fortunio, De ortu animae humanae libri tres. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		LICETI, Fortunio, De ortu animae humanae libri tres.
		Liceti wrote on a variety of topics but had a lifelong interest in embryology.
		In 1616 he wrote a dissertation on intra-uterine life and changes, De perfecta constitutione hominis in utero, and was the author of the first and most popular treatise on teratology ever published, his De monstrorum, also published in 1616.
	www.polybiblio.com /watbooks/2447.html (414 words)

	Francesco Redi. Scienziato e poeta alla Corte dei Medici - POPUP - Fortunio Liceti
		Dal 1636 tornò a Bologna su una cattedra medica e vi restò fino al 1645, allorquando fece ritorno a Padova per ricoprire la prima cattedra di medicina teorica dello Studio, che tenne fino alla morte, avvenuta il 16 giugno 1657.
		Filosofo di impostazione aristotelica, Liceti entrò in polemica anche con Galileo.
		Restano ancor oggi inediti alcuni suoi commentari alle opere cosmologiche di Aristotele, particolarmente significativi perché contengono ampie discussioni in merito alle più importanti novità astronomiche del primo Seicento.
	www.francescoredi.it /Database/redi/redi.nsf/b4604a8b566ce010c125684d00471e00/01c47c55b344344ec12569f900527afe!OpenDocument (320 words)

	Cure For Impotence - Fight Impotence with Maca from Peru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It will be our endeavor to cite the more seemingly reliable instances of the anomalies of the time or duration of pregnancy reported in reputable periodicals cure for impotence or books.
		Short Pregnancies.--Hasenet speaks of the possibility of a living birth at four months; Capuron relates the instance cure for impotence of Fortunio Liceti, who was said to have been born at the end of four and a half months and lived to complete his twenty-fourth year.
		In the case of the Marechal de Richelieu, the Parliament of Paris decreed that an infant of five months possessed that capability of living the ordinary period of existence, i.e., the "viabilite," which the law of France requires for the establishment of inheritance.
	eteamz.active.com /michaeldickson/files/cure-for-impotence.html (1030 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Special Reports \| Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of Human Body by Armand Marie ...
		A little later, the Italians weigh in with Fortunio Liceti's De monstrorum natura caussis et differentiis (On the nature, causes and differences of monsters, 1616) and Ulisse Aldrovandi's Monstrorum historia (History of monsters, 1642).
		In an age in which religious feelings ran high, deformity was often taken as a mark of divine displeasure, or at least of a singularly bad time in the offing.
		Fortunio Liceti's treatise, published in 1616, is mostly about children with clearly recognisable abnormalities - as can be seen from the frontispiece where they are assembled in heraldic poses.
	books.guardian.co.uk /guardianfirstbookaward2004/story/0,15009,1295002,00.html (3755 words)

	Journal of Religion and Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As to this part, I believe that I have learned sureness of demonstration from the innumerable advances made by pure mathematicians, never fallacious, for if not never, then at least very rarely, have I fallen into mistakes by argumentation.
		In this matter, therefore, I am a Peripatetic" (Galileo to Fortunio Liceti, 14 September 1640: Opere, 18: 248).
		Annibale Fantoli argues that, despite what Bellarmino seems to admit in the third paragraph, the cardinal denies the possibility of reconciling Copernican astronomy with the Bible.
	puffin.creighton.edu /human/JRS/1999/1999-3n.html (1338 words)

	The New York Academy of Medicine: Initiatives: Historical Collections: Lectures: The Prodigy Book: The 17th Century
		For the Italian physician Fortunio Liceti, true monstrosity inspired wonder and not horror.
		He criticized the association of monsters with divine wrath, and pointed out that the word 'monster' came from the Latin verb 'monstrare,' meaning 'to show.' Hence, Liceti argued, monsters were not signs of God's punishment, but rather, they were creatures to be displayed because of their rarity.
		The little creatures on this title page were probably well known by readers since they represented famous cases of monstrosity, including the monster of Ravenna (shown at the top).
	www.nyam.org /initiatives/im-histe_ter5.shtml (619 words)

	About the Historical Popularity of Stone Charms in Asian Culture
		Within are enclosed little scrolls inscribed with mystic characters to conjure evil spirits and thwart their malevolent schemes for the tribulation of mankind.
		An ingenious, if rather far-fetched explanation of the supposed power of coral to avert lightning and hail is given by Fortunio Liceti.
		In his opinion, coral, being of a warm quality, overcomes the coldness of the atmosphere, which produces lightning by the attraction of contraries, and hail by its own quality.
	www.jjkent.com /articles/charms-stones-Asia.htm (1289 words)

	KSCMD Exhibition -medicine
		The work, unusually, also includes poems sent to Linden by well-wishers on the publication of his work as well as advertisements of various bottled mineral waters for sale.
		Fortunio Liceti (1577-1657) graduated from the University of Bologna in 1600 with a double doctorate in philosophy and medicine.
		Liceti is best remembered for his controversial works on genetic anomalies, hieroglyphics and astronomical debates.In this work, Liceti celebrates "monstrosity" by depicting persons with genetic anomalies as creatures of rarity and reverence and not as examples of God's divine wrath.
	kcl.ac.uk /depsta/iss/library/speccoll/exhibitions/medex/medmed.html (813 words)

	The Bologna Phosphorus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Casciorola originally called it the 'lapis solaris' as it appeared to store the light of the Sun.
		An account was later published by Fortunio Liceti Litheosphorus, sive de lapide Bononiensi lucem, Utino,1640.
		It was made phosphorescent by being powdered very finely, calcined, then mixed with water or white of egg and fashioned into small tablets, which were again calcined at a high temperature in a furnace using bellows.
	www.levity.com /alchemy/bologna.html (151 words)

	hck: Chartaceous presence, material impact (Padova2000)
		Liceti outnumbers Nifo by 153 to 126; Piccolomini follows third with 83 copies.
		Both Nifo and Liceti had more impact in Germany that one might expect judging by the number of studies hitherto dedicated to them: Their impact in Germany - and the reasons for this impact - might be worth having a look at.
		The main impact, the Paduan aristotelians had, was their impact in the various areas of natural philosophy.
	www.phil-hum-ren.uni-muenchen.de /php/Kuhn/ePub/Padova00/V1/Vortrag20000904.htm (3415 words)

	Università degli Studi di Padova (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The main characteristic of this Faculty resides in the common cultural basis of the disciplines that follow the "scientific method" and Galileo Galilei who in fact introduced it for the first time in our University, where he had the opportunity to develop his ideas.
		In a letter to Fortunio Liceti, a professor in Padua, Galileo wrote from Florence on June 23, 1640: "It is not without envy that I heard of your return to Padua where I spent the best eighteen years of my whole life.
		Enjoy the liberty and the numerous friendships that you made there and in the cherished city of Venice".
	www.unipd.it /en/printer/faculties/science.htm (297 words)

	U B U W E B :: Dick Higgins "A Short History of Pattern Poetry"
		1570-1625), Fortunio Liceti (1577-1654), and their mycaenas, Domenico Molino.
		2.14 through 2.17), and, while Liceti wrote rather few pattern poems himself and these of indifferent quality, he wrote a number of extraordinarily detailed books on most of the Greek and Latin pattern poems, comparing surviving versions and, in general, offering a startling hermeneutic analysis of the pieces.
		The second group developed at Rome in the middle of the century, and it included Francesco Passerini (1619-95) and Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz (1602-82), a Cistercian monk, born of a Spanish father and a Bohemian mother, who lived most of his life travelling for his order and inspecting buildings.
	www.ubu.com /papers/higgins_pattern.html (3572 words)

	Giornale Nuovo: The Paper Zoo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This engraving of a mermaid is taken from a volume entitled Istorica descrizione de tre regni Congo, Matamba et Angola, a publication of one Giovanni Antonio Cavazzi (d.
		These are some of the many oddities pictured in a treatise simply entitled De Monstris, by Fortunato (or Fortunio) Liceti (1577-1657), an Aristotelian scholar who also published works on hieroglyphics, spontaneous generation and astronomical controversies.
		This distinguished-looking armadillo is taken from the great Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particuliére of George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788), a 44 volume production published between 1749 and 1804.
	www.spamula.net /blog/archives/000191.html (384 words)

	Fantastic areas on the Moon
		The crater has a diameter of 45 miles or 75 km and a depth of 12,000 feet.
		Across the way from Cuvier is Licetus, named after Fortunio Liceti, who was an Italian physician.
		He was honored with a crater that has a diameter of 45 miles or 75 km and is 9800 feet deep.
	www.cfas.org /Library/fantastic_moon1.htm (1841 words)

	Good, Common, Regular, and Orderly: Early Modern Classifications of Monstrous Births -- Bates 18 (2): 141 -- Social ...
		Fortunio Liceti, De Monstrorum Caussis, Natura, and Differentiis
		Fortunio Liceti, De Monstrorum Caussis, Natura, et Differentiis
		On the influence of Aristotle on Liceti's De Monstrorum,
	shm.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/18/2/141?etoc (1590 words)

	Grotesque Marvellous and Monstrous Images
		Elephant-headed man from Fortunio Liceti's De Monstris (1665).
		Pope-ass and other monsters from Fortunio Liceti's De Monstrorum causis natura (1665).
		Sneering Woman (James Parsons, Crounian Lectures on Muscular Motion, 1745).
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~ian.mccormick/images.htm (384 words)

	Find in a Library: Fortvnii Liceti De lvcidis in svblimi ingenvarvm exercitationvm liber
		Fortvnii Liceti De lvcidis in svblimi ingenvarvm exercitationvm liber
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	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/33a7baa7bb75690e.html (51 words)

	Towards a very old account of rationality in experiment
		This is not the place to begin to defend such a striking claim, and in any event, it has already been ably defended by William Wallace in a long series of articles culminating in his 1992(a and b).
		In a letter to Fortunio Liceti dated September 14, 1640, Galileo writes:
		In this matter, therefore, I am a peripatetic.
	aristotle.philosophy.msstate.edu /pr/courses/Holt/papers/IDEAL3.html (7834 words)

	Liguriaplanet.com : Genova : Recco
		This is why in February 1992 Recco was awarded by the President of the Republic a gold medal for its Civil Merit.
		Recco is also the birthplace of: San Giovanni Bono, Nicoloso a great navigator who rediscovered the Canary Islands in 1341, the Admiral Biagio Assereto that in the Ponza battle destroyed the fleet of King Alfonso d’Aragona and the scientist Fortunio Liceti.
		One must also visit the Church and Convent of RR.PP.
	www.liguriaplanet.com /web/eng/genova/recco/recco.htm (332 words)

	StarHub CableTV: Show Highlight Index - Extra Ordinary: Human Mutants - The Dangerous Womb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Cyclops have a rich iconography dating from Greek Mythology.
		The first recorded instance of a child Cyclops was given by Fortunio Liceti in 1624.
		More than 90 years ago, an iceberg in the North Atlantic sank the Titanic on its maiden voyage.
	cabletv.starhub.com /eng/highlight/0,1766,205924,00.html (421 words)

	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne - Full Text Free Book (Part 5/10)
		writing--for he wrote books de omni scribili; and for Licetus (Fortunio)
		I love to lie hard and alone, and even without my
		wife--This last word may stagger the faith of the world--but remember, 'La Vraisemblance' (as Bayle says in the affair of Liceti) 'n'est pas toujours
	www.fullbooks.com /The-Life-and-Opinions-of-Tristram-Shandy5.html (17525 words)

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