1749 Greek BIBLE New Testament Birr Maestricht Basel + Senebier Provenance

1749 Greek New Testament Bible Birr Maestricht Basel + Senebier Provenance

A rare mid-18^th-century Greek New Testament Bible published in Basel. This ‘Novum Testamentum’ was edited by Anton Birr who strictly follows the Greek text of Gerhard van Maestricht’s 1711 Greek New Testament. This two-column Bible features references at the foot of each page rather than in the margins.

Item number: #10179

Price: $550

Holy Bible

Hē kainē diathēkē: Novum testamentum ex optimis codd. summa fide recensitum: Accesserunt loca parallela in usum sacrar. litterarum studiosorum accurate selecta

Basileae: Typis Viduae Joh. Conradi a Mechel, 1749.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • I – [6], 300
  • II – [2], 303-656
• Language: Greek
• Provenance: Handwritten – Senebier
  • Jean Senebier (1742-1809) was a Genevan Calvinist pastor and naturalist. He was born in Geneva, the son of a wealthy merchant. He wrote extensively on plant physiology and was one of the major early pioneers of photosynthesis research.
  • Senebier also published on the experimental method, first in 1775, and then in an expanded work, in 1802. His precise definition of the experimental method anticipated the work of noted French physiologist Claude Bernard fifty years later. Senebier also served as chief librarian of the Republic of Geneva.
  • Senebier arrived at his best known achievement, his demonstration that plants take up atmospheric carbon dioxide and give off oxygen, based entirely on the phlogiston theory of chemistry, and only in his later works did he reformulate his conclusions in terms of the more modern, oxygen chemistry developed by Antoine Lavoisier and colleagues. This discovery by Senebier regarding gases ranks as one of the last of the important early discoveries in the unraveling of the fundamental chemical processes of photosynthesis.
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure
• Size: ~7.25in X 4.5in (18.5cm x 11.5cm)

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