241
Maggi, Carlo
Of the lunar influence dissertation with two supplementary pamphlets on the same subject, 1776
Estimate
€ 150 - 200
Sold
€ 192
The price includes buyer's premium
Do you have a similar item you would like to sell?
Information
Brescia, for Pietro Vescovi, 1776. In 8°. 233x171mm. The author's name comes from the dedication, on fol. *3r, addressed to Count Girolamo Fenaroli, errata paper at the end of the volume not always present, copy in beards. Modern half leather and cardboard binding.
Specialist Notes
Original edition of this rare and interesting dissertation, recited on April 27, 1775 "in a public meeting of the Agricultural Academy of Brescia".
Scientific investigation by Maggi on the influences of the Moon: "... the Moon must truly cause alterations and perceptible effects in many terrestrial bodies (...)" which he defines as "physics action...and mechanical action". In the second part of the booklet the meteorological effects are studied, "Delle meteorological observations", pp.49-96.
Riccardi II, 94: "Contains some astronomical notions as a foundation of the meteorological argument of which deals primarily".
Scientific investigation by Maggi on the influences of the Moon: "... the Moon must truly cause alterations and perceptible effects in many terrestrial bodies (...)" which he defines as "physics action...and mechanical action". In the second part of the booklet the meteorological effects are studied, "Delle meteorological observations", pp.49-96.
Riccardi II, 94: "Contains some astronomical notions as a foundation of the meteorological argument of which deals primarily".
Contact
More Lots
243
Manoscritto - Santa Maria di Cerreto - Crema - Bottelli, Giovanni Tommaso
Drawings of the properties of the Dolfini abbey in the Crema area, 1761
Estimate € 4.000 - 6.000
Starting bid € 4.000
244
Manuscript studies of Mechanical Physics Geometry Natural History and Sacred Sciences, 1750
Estimate € 3.000 - 3.500
Starting bid € 3.000
245
He buys of the S.ri Pietro and Giuseppe brothers Altemburger merchants of Tabachi in Trento with..., 1724
Estimate € 1.500 - 2.000
Starting bid € 1.500
246
Letter to the Religious of the Visitation of St. Francis de Sales of the Monastery of Baillor in..., 1700
Estimate € 300 - 500
Starting bid € 300
248
Manoscritto - Nelli, Jacopo Angelo
The two old rivals, 1774
Estimate € 150 - 200
Starting bid € 150
250
Medicina - Botanica - Auda, Domenico
Brief compendium of marvelous secrets approved with happy success in bodily ailments., 1716
Estimate € 160 - 200
Starting bid € 160
251
Medicina - Boerhaave, Herman
Praelectiones publicae de morbis oculorum., 1764
Estimate € 100 - 200
Starting bid € 100
252
Medicina - Celoni, Tommaso Maria
Of the abuse of ointments, and of plasters and a new method of treating sores reasoning., 1775
Estimate € 150 - 250
Starting bid € 150
253