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Regio Iulio, In Officina Dominic Ferri, 1670.
4th, pp.566-(5). Light browning, slight blooms, rare small spots. Contemporary binding in full parchment, calligraphic title. Very rare original edition.
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Beautiful copy of one of the most important treatises on fluid mechanics. In this work Borelli "argues against positive lightness, discusses the Torricellian experiment, takes up siphons, pumps and the nature of fluidity, tries to understand the expansion of water during freezing, and deals with fermentation and other chemical processes" (DSB). "This work is important as the first treatise on capillarity and for containing important investigations on the action of capillary tubes, in which the author, among other things, formulates the law that the height of the rise of liquids in capillary tubes is inversely proportional to their diameters. His investigations also led him to the conclusion that the phenomenon of capillarity is independent of air pressure" (Zeitlinger in Sotheran, First Supplement, 3060). The "De motionibus naturalibus” was well known among Borelli's contemporaries and is cited by Varignon in his Projet d'une nouvelle mechanique. It is reviewed in the first volume of Philosophical Transactions Abridged, where it is praised for its completeness, for the discussion of Torricelli's experiments and for Borelli's position against Descartes on the nature of fluidity" (Roberts & Trent).
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