LANA de TERZI, Francesco (1631?1687). Magisterium naturae, et artis. Opus physico-mathematicum? Brescia: Giovanni Maria Ricciardi, 1684-1692 (volume III: Parma: Ippolito Rosation, 1692). 3 volume set. Folios. Printed in double columns. [1 blank], [16], 526, 24 plates; [34], 512, [18], + 20 plates (6 hand drawn in contemporary facsimile); [1 blank], [8], 571, 23, [1], + 13 plates (2 hand drawn in contemporary facsimile). Illustrated with woodcut vignette on title-pages, woodcut initials, head and tail pieces, 57 out-of-text copper engraved and hand drawn plates inserted at rear depicting numerous experiments and scientific instruments. Contemporary full vellum with two darkened vellum spine labels gilt decorated and lettered in compartments, speckled edges (corners gently bumped, general soiling and warping to boards, toning to endpapers, light worming to vol. II bastard title, small tear in vol. III to Aaa4; otherwise clean and tight). Provenance: 18th century bookplates of Thomae Vargas Macciucca. SCARCE. A monumental encyclopedia of physics written to complement Lana?s Prodromo (1670), by more thoroughly explaining various theories advanced within. In ?History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume VII?, Lynn Thorndike points out how Lana emphasizes the more occult principles of natural philosophy, experimentation and demonstration with a majority discussing the many varieties of motions of natural bodies, manifest and occult in the second and third volumes.