1557 PHILOSOPHY by Philoponus Joannes Grammaticus ANTIQUE FOLIO vellum bound

img{max-width:100%} Philoponus, Joannes Grammaticus (490-570 CE)In Procli Diadochi Duodeviginti Argumenta. De Mundi Aeternitate.Lyon: Nicolaus Edoard, 1557.First edition, folio: 13 x 8 1/2 in. 295 pagestranslated from Greek to Latin by Joannes Mahotius; printer's woodcut device to titlebound in full original vellum, worn; stain to title page and following 30 pages.Missing piece of vellum in lower right corner of the front coverText in LatinWriting in opposition to Aristotelian physics, our author, also known as John the Grammarian, supports Christian creationism against the arguments of the Athenian Neoplatonist Proclus.---------------------------------------- John Philoponus (c. 490 – c. 570), also known as John the Grammarian or John of Alexandria, was a Byzantine Greek philologist, Aristotelian commentator, Christian theologian and an author of a considerable number of philosophical treatises and theological works.He was born in Alexandria. A rigorous, sometimes polemical writer a