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Wednesday 18 November 2020, 10:30 AM • Rome

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Cavalieri, Bonaventura / D'Avisi, Urbano Giovan Francesco

Treatise on the sphere with the practices for those who wish to practice in it, and with the way of making the celestial figure according to the rational, 1682

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Information

Rome, Mascardi, 1682. In 12th. Frontispiece, headboards and ornate initials, full-page chalcographic portrait of his father Bonaventura Cavalieri, numerous illustrations in the text, damp and light browning halos on various papers, original parchment binding, defects.

Specialist Notes

Very rare original edition on the market. The treatise is largely by Cavalieri and is divided into two parts - one expounding the doctrine of the sphere, the second consisting of astronomical practices, many of which D'avisi had already published in '56) - and preceded by a life of the Cavalieri. The work is the Italian translation of the Latin work Sphaera seu doctrinae spericae published in Bologna by Cavalieri in 1642, with additions and modifications by D'avisi.