Sefer Ilem. Fifty Parts in One Volume, by Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Delmedigo, Odessa, 1864-1867

Sefer Ilem. Fifty Parts in One Volume, by Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Delmedigo, Odessa, 1864-1867

Sefer Ilem by Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Delmedigo of Qandia - part one (1864), part two: Sefer Ma'ayan Ganim (1865), part three: Sefer Chakut Shamayim (1866), Part four: Gevurot Hashem (1867), part five: Ma'ayan Chatum (1867), with charts, diagrams, the author's biography and picture.

Specifications: XXIV, [2], 120, [3], 124-213, [4], 221-290, [2], 293-350, [1], 352-442, [4] pages. Paper. Contains [7] leaves of sketches. 14x22 cm.

Unique Features: Second edition with added glosses, corrections, author's biography and more. The original edition was printed by Rabbi Menashe ben Yisrael in Amsterdam in 1629. With the author's portrait.

Background: Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Rofeh Delmedigo, known as Yashar Mi-Qandia, was born in 1591. At the age of 15, he began to study logic and the laws of nature, philosophy, mathematics and medicine at the University of Padua. Galileo Galilei was one of his teachers. "He would say that all secular disciplines are ladders in order to reach knowledge of G-d, and was annoyed at the rabbis' and roshei yeshivas' rejection of secular knowledge; for it was ours in previous generations, and it came from the innards of Judah." His many works deal with a wide range of fields: astronomy, algebra, chemistry and mechanics, kabbalah, translations of Greek texts, Copernicus's claims, a book on paradoxes, a debate with Aristotle's claims, a book of logic and more. Some of his books were not printed.

Condition: Fine. Minimal stains and slight tears. Dismantled binding.