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Bologna, for the HH, by Dozzi, 1655-1656. 4th, vols. 2; first volume: 13 ff. including the frontispiece by Stefano Della Bella and the portrait of Galileo engraved on copper by Francesco Villamena; 48 pp., 48 pp., (4) ff., 160 pp., (2) ff., 68, 127 pp., (2) ff., 264, 43 pp; volume II: (1) f., 60 pp., (8) ff., 104 pp., (2) ff., 105-156, 48 pp., (4) ff., 179, (1) pp. , (1) ff., 53-106 pp., (1) f., 103-126 pp., (4) ff., 238 [i.e., 242] pp., (3) ff.; the table depicting the compass is missing. Some browning and foxing, rare water stains. Contemporary binding in full contemporary parchment, calligraphic title, missing, worn. Untouched copy with full margins.
Specialist Notes
First edition of the complete collection of Galileo's works, appearing only a year after his death and of great interest for its reception in the 17th century: this was the edition in which Newton and his Subsequent eminent scientists read their Galileo.
Included here are not only most of the seminal works written and published during his lifetime, including the Sidereus of 1610, the first work of modern observational astronomy, but also other publications and letters from supporters and antagonists. Together, in a single work, they offer a true panorama of scientific activity in Italy in the first half of the 17th century and are fundamental for the history of the formation of Galileo's text. The Work contains many unpublished or little-known elements provided to the curators by Vincenzo Viviani, friend and disciple of Galileo. Among these, some hitherto unpublished letters and experiments of Galileo and the Bilancetta, his first scientific work, written in 1586. Both the Dialogueand the Letter to Christina of Lorraine were censored and are therefore omitted. Cinti 132; Riccardi I.518-19.
Included here are not only most of the seminal works written and published during his lifetime, including the Sidereus of 1610, the first work of modern observational astronomy, but also other publications and letters from supporters and antagonists. Together, in a single work, they offer a true panorama of scientific activity in Italy in the first half of the 17th century and are fundamental for the history of the formation of Galileo's text. The Work contains many unpublished or little-known elements provided to the curators by Vincenzo Viviani, friend and disciple of Galileo. Among these, some hitherto unpublished letters and experiments of Galileo and the Bilancetta, his first scientific work, written in 1586. Both the Dialogueand the Letter to Christina of Lorraine were censored and are therefore omitted. Cinti 132; Riccardi I.518-19.
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