The very oldest early moderns probably reached ages not see very different to the oldest old in our own times but there were very very many fewer of them relative tot he population. Nevertheless, a range of books instructed readers on how to manage themselves and their environment so as to ensure living to a ripe old age.
Last Name | First Name | Title | Date Sort ascending |
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Venner | Tobias | Via recta ad vitam longam. | 1637 |
Lessius | Leonardus | Hygiasticon: Or, The right course of preserving life and health unto extream old age: together… | 1634 |
Venner | Tobias | Via recta ad vitam longam: or, A plaine philosphicall demonstration of the nature, faculties, and… | 1628 |
Venner | Tobias | Via recta ad vitam longam, or A plaine philosophicall discovrse of the nature, faculties, and… | 1622 |
Venner | Tobias | Via recta ad vitam longam, or A plaine philosophical discourse of the nature, faculties, and… | 1620 |
Newton | Thomas | The olde mans dietarie. A worke no lesse learned then necessary for the preseruation of… | 1586 |
Wingfield | Henry | A compendious or short treatise, gathered out of the chyefe and principall authors of phisycke… | 1551 |