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Galileo, Guldin and Mersenne Square Off at the Collegio Romano
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[[GALILEIANA] ] CASATI, Paolo. Terra machinis mota dissertationes geometricae, mechanicae, physicae, hydrostaticae ... . Rome, Ignazio de Lazaro, 1658.
Scarce augmented edition of this work on the theory of machines and the nature of gravity by the young Jesuit Paolo Casati.
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's GRAVESANDE, Willem Jacob. Essai de perspective. The Hague, la Veuve d'Abraham Troyel, 1711.
I. Rare first edition of this "milestone in the gradual transformation of the science of perspective into descriptive geometry." - Vagnetti Praised by Johan Bernoulli, this important study simplifies the various methods then in practical use, including those dealing with shadows and gnomics.
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Magnetism At Sea
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BARLOW, Peter. An Essay On Magnetic Attractions, And On The Laws Of Terrestrial And Electro Magnetism. Second Edition, much enlarged and improved... London, J. Mawman, 1823.
First published London, 1820, this is the second enlarged edition of Barlow's shipboard study of magnetism.
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Precursor To Galileo’s De Motu
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BENEDETTI, Giovanni Battista. Resolvtio omnivm Evclidis problematvm aliorumqэ ad hoc necessario inuentorum vna tantummodo circini data apertura, per Ioannem Baptistam de Benedictis inventa. . Venice, apud Bartholomaeum Caesanum, 1553.
Scarce first edition of the author’s first book, treating selected Euclidean problems by means of a ruler and a compass with fixed setting, “of outstanding importance in the history of the laws of falling bodies.” — Drake & Drabkin, Mechanics in 16th-Century Italy, p. 32.
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“The ‘Opening Gun’ In the Campaign Against Galileo's Dialogo”
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[Galileiana] BERIGARD, Claudio [Claude Guillermet]. Dubitationes in dialogum Galilaei Galilaei Lyncei in Gymnasio Pisano mathematici supraordinarij. Florence, Petri Nesti, 1632.
Rare first and only edition of this understudied treatise, the first critique of Galileo’s Dialogo , by a staunch proponent of fixed-earth Aristotelianism.
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