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Venice, Giunti, 1584. In 4o. Frontispiece with woodcut typography by Luca Antonio Giunta, woodcut portrait with portrait of the Author, numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, woodcut caps and end caps, spots, half leather binding with green leather patch with author and titles in gold.
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Precious collection of all the works of the important scientist and scholar of the sixteenth century, fellow student of Copernicus. Particularly significant is the explanation of celestial motions with homocentric circles and the description of the first idea of a telescope called "Galilean", used for the observation of the stars; of literary importance the poem "Shypilis sive de morbo gallico". Of greater importance is the writing "De contagione et cagionis morbis", which made the author considered the founder of modern pathology. RICCARDI, Italian mathematical library, I, 482. SALLANDER, Biblioteca Walleriana, 3169; Graesse, II, 623; Annali dei Joints, 885.
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