Juan Luis VIVES

Edit taking collective editing Jacob Gessner in Zurich in 1563. The first edition of Vives is 1538 in Basel at Robert Winter, the Melanchthon of 1552. The work of Vives and the Melanchthon were together for the first once in 1543, in Winter in Basel. Latin text and numerous passages in Greek. Italics.

Binding in full pigskin over wooden boards of the time. Back with five nerves decorated with cold grotesque; Registration time at the head of the back pen. Cold stamped dishes several floral frames and wheels, the first dish has a beautiful center plate bearing the image of Fortune (with ship and imaginary architectural motifs) surmounted by HMH initial and underlined the date 1570, the second is to Arms the Holy Roman Empire. The two plates are very finely worked. Remains of clasps. Beveled dishes. Initial T. Kruger appear in the first flat plate, signing the binder or the artist who produced the two plates. Bookplates Lindner dated 1618 on the first guard, apparently references back later that same care, some underlining in pen. Skilfully restored upper jaw. First a little loose notebook, a few pale marginal foxing and a small hole without damage to the text on page 523.

Rare texts meeting, all of which signed the birth of psychology.

Each work is a direct or indirect commentary on the De anima of Aristotle. The most famous is the Liber de Anima Melanchthon, originally intended for students Witemberg, which was a great success and was reprinted many times. These texts were judiciously combined for all departed from the scholastic tradition to generate a new vision and doctrine of the tripartite body, mind, soul. All these texts are clearly precursors to the study of human psychology and complementary in their approaches; seeking to study the manifestations of the soul (and not just gasoline): emotions, memory, passions, the authors found the introspective method, the basis of empirical psychology, and basic methods deployed by Descartes and Bacon. We also can not rule out the works of Protestant thought, and the sphere of reform of their birth. In seeking to break with the medieval and scholastic world and return to antiquity, proximity to Luther (in Melanchthon was a close collaborator) and Protestantism that Melanchthon, Vives, Gesner and Amerbach discovered a new way of thinking man, a German humanism transformed teaching.