galileo

Descripción: Hard cover. Woodcut device on title & numerous attractive woodcut illus. & diagrams in the text. [8], 314 (misnumbered 306), [6] pp. Small 4to, very attractive antique red morocco (a bit of foxing), panelled in gilt with gilt fleurons in each corner, triple gilt fillets round sides, spine richly gilt, a.e.g. Leyden: appresso gli Elzevirii, 1638. First edition, and a very fresh copy, of Galileo’s last and greatest work; it is the first modern textbook of physics and the foundation of modern mechanics. "The two sciences with which the book principally deals are the engineering science of strength of materials and the mathematical science of kinematics Galileo’s Two New Sciences underlies modern physics not only because it contains the elements of the mathematical treatment of motion, but also because most of the problems that came rather quickly to be seen as problems amenable to physical experiment and mathematical analysis were gathered together in this book with suggestive discussions of their possible solution."–D.S.B., V, p. 245. A very fine copy. Old stamp carefully erased from blank portion of final leaf. ? Dibner, Heralds of Science, 141. Evans, First Editions of Epochal Achievements in the History of Science (1934), 27. Horblit 36. Printing & the Mind of Man 130. Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, pp. 129-30. Sparrow, Milestones of Science, 75. Nº de ref. de la librería JHABES2518

Descripción: Frankfurt: Poltheanus, 1610. Hardcover. Estado de conservación: Good. 2nd Edition. 8vo, Printer's device on title, text diagrams, ornamental headline and initials. Rehinged, affecting a few letters, and rebound in modern vellum wrappers. Housed in a handsome clamshell box. The very rare second edition of Galileo's work first published earlier that same year in Venice. It contains "some of the most important discoveries in scientific literature" (PMM 113). Nº de ref. de la librería 418

Descripción: Cosimo Giunti, Florence, 1615. Hardcover. Estado de conservación: Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. GRAZIA, Vincenzio di. Considerazioni di M. Vincenzio di Grazia sopra'l Discorso di Galileo Galilei. Intorno alle cose che stanno in sù l'acqua, e che inquella si muovono. Florence, Zanobi Pignoni, 1613. 86 pp, (2). 4tos, untrimmed and bound in contemporary Italian decorative publisher¿s boards; some wear and minor restoration; occasional minor staining and some scattered foxing, but a wonderfully genuine volume in generally fine condition. A remarkable conjunction: First editions of two scarce and important Galileana ¿ an attack on Galileo¿s theory of hydrostatics by Vincenzo di Grazia bound alongside Galileo¿s lengthy defence of his position. Of great interest for showing the methodological interrelationship of Galileo¿s physics and his astronomy. The two works are found here in a well-preserved contemporary state, untrimmed and bound for a 17th century follower of the power struggle between Galileo and the Aristotelians. Bound first is Vincenzio di Grazia¿s critique of Galileo¿s Discorso al serenissimo Don Cosimo II (Florence, Giunti, 1612) representing a staunch defence of the Aristotelian understanding of materials and their buoyancy ¿ a position far removed from Galileo¿s own strongly empirical reconsideration of hydrostatics in terms of what we today call specific gravity. Di Grazia imputes to Galileo six principles concerning elements, buoyancy, and scientific methodology (cf Drake, pp 219-20). All in all, Di Grazia sees in Galileo¿s new observational science a dangerous method which confounds common sense and sound theoretical reasoning: ¿concerning those things that cannot be grasped through the senses or, if so, only poorly, [Galileo] insists on explaining them through the senses, as with the cavities of the moon, the sun-spots, and a thousand more things like that¿ (Considerazioni, pp 82-3). The second work, Risposta alle Opposizioni del S. Lodovico delle Colombe, e del S. Vincenzo di Grazia, gives Galileo¿s ripost to these criticisms, together with an attack on an old enemy, Ludovico delle Colombe. As he would do numerous times, Galileo hides behind the name of a devoted follower, Benedetto Castelli. However, a manuscript of the Risposta in Galileo¿s own hand discovered in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale has convinced authorities such as Drake that it is, in fact, principally authored by Galileo himself. Nº de ref. de la librería 4954

Descripción: Rome Giacomo Mascardi 1623., 1623. Hardcover. Estado de conservación: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. [22 x 16.5 cm], (7) ff., including engraved title and portrait of Galileo signed Villamoena, 236 pp. Bound in 19th-century vellum. Excellent. First edition, first issue of an outstanding document in the history of science. The work grew out of the appearance of three comets in the autumn of 1618 and articulate the principal arguments of whether they were atmospheric or celestial phenomena. More importantly, Il Saggiatore is intimately connected with, if indeed it did not originate, the rift between Galileo and the Jesuits which ultimately saw the astronomer imprisoned by the Inquisition after the publication of the Dialogo in 1632. Il Saggiatore is often called Galileo’s "scientific manifesto," and is certainly one of the most celebrated polemics in the history of physical science. It is the first of Galileo’s works written after the Inquisiton’s warning not to propound or defend the Copernican theory, which of course he does, albeit in covert form. The engraved illustrations in Il Saggiatore include some of the earliest published of the rings of Saturn, Mars in inferior and superior conjunction, and the phases of Venus. The work comes in several issues, of which this is the first, with the short errata list correcting 16 errors.* Cinti 73; Riccardi I.511, 628; De Backer-Sommervogel III.1684-86; L’Accademia dei Lincei e la cultura europea nel XVII secolo, 14 (Grassi), 15 (Galileo) and generally pp. 75ff.; Drake & O'Malley, The Controversy of the Comets of 1618, p. vi. Signed by Author(s). Nº de ref. de la librería 3704

Descripción: Stamp. Camerali, Ravenna, 1649. Rare first edition in the original Italian of Galileo’s early treatise on mechanics, a precursor to the research that he would present in his Discorsi. This popular treatise, widely circulated in manuscript form, is effectively a "bridge between statics and dynamics," and according to Drake, "far superior to other available works on the subject" (Galileo on Motion and Mechanics, p. 137). "Galileo presents the analysis of simple machines in an unusual way. He is justly celebrated in this tract for his use and explication of the principle of virtual velocities" (Clagett in Drake, viii). Incorporating elements from Aristotle, Archimedes, Pappus, Philoponus, Jordanus and others, Della Scienza Mecanica offers "a coherent and illuminating exposition of the foundations of mechanics." Drake explains that while little of the content of Della Scienza Mecanica found its way into the Discorsi (with the exception of a discussion of the lever, Galileo omitted the time-honored topic of simple machines, choosing to emphasize his newer findings on dynamics), the Scienza shows "unmistakable novelty," and represents an important stepping stone in Galileo’s intellectual development; early investigations into conservation of energy and the principle of inertia can be traced here. Della Scienza Mecanica is based on a series of lectures on aspects of statics and of simple machines delivered by Galileo for his pupils at Padua in the 1590s. In Drake’s estimation, the text was most unlikely to have been revised after 1608, and thus "its essential content may be considered to have followed very shortly after the composition of De Motu" (ibid p. 137). The work remained unpublished until Marin Mersenne produced a French-language paraphrase of the original manuscript in Paris in 1634, Les Méchaniques de Galilée. Shortly thereafter, in 1636, Robert Payne worked from a manuscript copy to translate the Scienza into English, but this was never published; Thomas Salusbury published a new translation in 1665 in his Mathematical Collections and Translations. Luca Danesi was the first to prepare the original Italian text for publication, and his edition of the Scienza would be included in all subsequent collections of Galileo’s works (the Bolognese Dozza Opere of 1655, etc.). Danesi (1598-1672) was variously an architect, engineer, writer, lawyer, and mathematician. He designed the churches of S. Romualdo in Ravenna and S. Marie dei Teatini in Ferrara, both dating from c. 1630. The "Trattato di mecaniche" was reprinted as a separately paginated section at the end of Danesi’s Opere (Ferrara, Bolzoni, 1670), which also includes a tract on practical geometry and one on bridges, as well as an analysis of the Tiber River floods. OCLC lists CalTech, Iowa, and l’Institut de France. A sole copy of Danesi’s 1670 Opera is listed at CalTech. Cinti 121; Riccardi I.517.161 and Danesi I.388.1; Carli-Favaro 227; Houzeau-Lancaster 3386 (1655 ed.); Gamba 479; Sotheran, First Suppl. 3157; not in Bibliotheca Mechanica, which had only the reprint in the 1655 Dozza Opera. 4to: 230 x 155. 8, 63 pp., with woodcuts throughout. Bound in later carta rustica. A very clean and large copy. Rare. Nº de ref. de la librería 2678

Descripción: D. Hauttius for the Elzevirs, Strasbourg, 1635. Hardcover. Estado de conservación: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (193x152 mm), [xvi], 495, [xxv] pp. Engraved frontispiece, full-page engraved portrait by Jacob van der Heyden, woodcut diagrams. Final leaf of errata. Engraved title with paper repair to right margin (not touching text), pages browned throughout as usual, 6 leaves with marginal unobtrusive repairs, Dd3 with small marginal hole, occasional annotations and markings in old hand. Contemporary vellum (repairs to spine and corners, lower cover with small stains). Provenance: old stamp to title, Lewis Einstein (booklabel to back of title page). A fine copy, collated complete. --- Honeyman IV 1409; Horblit 18c, Dibner 8; Carli-Favaro 32 (148); Caspar 11 (88); Cinti 196 (96); Riccardi I 512. - First Latin and first international edition of Galileo's enormously influential Dialogo demonstrating the validity of the Copernican heliocentric theory over the Ptolemaic theory of the solar system. It was the only major work of Galileo published outside Italy during his lifetime and made a huge impact outside professional scientific circles. If ordinary educated non-Italians read no other Galileo, they read this edition of this text. This edition also influenced generations of scientists outside Italy, among them Mersenne and Gassendi in France, Kepler in Germany and Wilkins and Wallis in England. Galileo's Dialogo is the summation of his ideas, presented in a didactic dialogue. It is a philosophical debate that takes place over four days between three speakers, Salviati (ie. Galileo), Sagredo and Simplicio (both Simplicius the commentator on Aristotle, and 'simplicio' ie. simple or naïve). Salivati puts forward the case for the heliocentric Copernican system and Simplicio puts forward the Aristotelian view. Sagrado, a Venetian nobleman, is the layman who is willing to learn from the other two (but who always agrees with Salivati in the end). The first day is concerned with the principles of motion, which in the second day is extended to include the earth's motion on a daily basis and the principle of relativity in observed motion. The third day treats of the sun's annual motion around the earth, which contains some pro-Copernican arguments, and the fourth gives us Galileo's idea that the ebb and flow of tides is due to the motion of the earth. The text closes with the editio princeps of Kepler's 'Perioche' and a long letter of Foscarini on the opinions of Pittagorichi and Copernicus.' The Dialogue has been described as "the story of the mind of Galileo." The book reveals Galileo as physicist and astronomer, sophisticate and sophist, polemicist and polished writer. Unlike the works of Copernicus and Kepler, the 'Dialogue' was a book for the educated public not just specialists, hence this edition's huge importance. In 1616 the Vatican declared the theories of Copernicus to be "foolish and absurd" and "formally heretical." De Revolutionibus was not banned but changes had to be made to the text, notably the removal of references to the compatibility of the ideas of Copernicus with scripture. Galileo was warned by the Pope not to continue defending the views of Copernicus, to which he acquiesced. In 1623 Maffeo Barberini became Pope. He had written a poem in praise of Galileo's telescopic discoveries and Galileo felt he might now be more receptive to his ideas. Galileo presented a copy of his Il Saggiatore to the Pope in which he ridiculed the Aristotelian views of Horatio Grassi and argued that scientific investigation should not be hindered by reliance on authority. The Pope enjoyed the book and this emboldened Galileo to ask for permission to publish his theories about tides. The Pope agreed on certain conditions. First, no mention was to be made to tides in the title as this would give too much prominence to a phenomenum which was used as evidence that the Earth moved. Second, Galileo was to state that this was only one of the ways in which the tides could have been created. The 'Dialogo' was the result. Nº de ref. de la librería 001634

Descripción: Heredi del Dozza 1655-56, Bologna, 1655. First collected edition of the works of Galileo, edited by Carlo Manolessi, and appearing only a year after his death. This was the edition in which Newton and his later contemporaries read their Galileo. The volumes contain not only most of the major works written and published over his lifetime, but also substantial unpublished material, both by Galileo himself as well as by his supporters and critics. Many of these items were provided to the editor by Vincenzo Viviani, Galileo’s friend and disciple, including a number of Galileo’s hitherto unpublished letters and experiments and La Bilancetta, his first scientific work, written in 1586. The Dialogo was of course on the Index and was not included in editions of the Opere until 1744. A feature of this edition is that each work has its own separate title page, imprint and pagination, which has resulted in several copies being broken up, the individual tracts being sold individually. Carlo & Favaro 251; Cinti 132; Riccardi I 518-9. 2 vols., 4to (228 x 167 mm), contemporary flexible vellum, fully complete I: pp. [28], 48, 48, [8], 160, [4], 68, 127, [4], 264, 43, including allegorical frontispiece signed Stefano della Bella, engraved portrait of Galileo by Villamoena, and with large folding plate of proportional compass; II: pp. [2], 60, [16], 104, [4], 105-156, 48, [8], 179, [1], [2], 53-106, [2], 103-126, [8], 238 (i.e. 242), [6]. Numerous woodcut diagrams in text (collates as in Cinti, Bibliotheca Galileiana). Some scattered browning to various quires (as usual), light damp stain in the beginning of volume 2, but in general a very good and unsophistaced copy. Nº de ref. de la librería 3097

Descripción: np, Florence [ie. Naples], 1710. Hardcover. Estado de conservación: Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to. [17 x 23.5 cm], (6) ff., 458 pp., (15) ff., (1) f. title, 83 (ie 81) pp., including title in red and black with large engraved emblematic vignette. With numerous geometrical illustrations in text. Bound in contemporary [?] stiff vellum with ¿Galilei Opere Tom. IV¿ gilt on spine, edges of leaves sprinkled. Three small wormholes and and a few small spots to spine, small dampstain to front cover, hinges a bit weak. Title faintly toned with marginal waterstain to foot, and small cancel replacing early ownership inscription, not affecting text; some very light scattered foxing throughout. A large, clean copy. Excellent Second Italian edition of one of the great landmarks in the history of astronomy and an essential component of any Galileo collection: Galileo's validation of the Copernican heliocentric system for which he was tried before the Inquisition, condemned as a heretic and forced to abjure the theories expressed in this work. The work was omitted from the standard collected edition of the Opera (1656/55) and no Italian language edition was available after the first of 1632. (The work was officially suppressed after Galileo¿s condemnation in 1633 and first appeared on the Index of prohibited books in 1664.) Presented as an ostensibly objective discussion between advocates of the Ptolemaic-Aristotelian and the Copernican systems trying to win the support of an educated layman, Galileo¿s Dialogo ¿displays all the great discoveries in the heavens which the ancients had ignored; it inveighs against the sterility, wilfulness, and ignorance of those who defended their systems; it revels in the simplicity of Copernican thought and, above all, it teaches that the movement of the earth makes sense in philosophy, that is, in physics¿ (PMM). The volume also includes Galileo¿s letter to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany explaining the relation between science and Scripture, the letter to Foscarini on the Copernican theory, the text of the Cardinal¿s sentence against him and his abjuration. The binding of the present copy, whose spine is gilt with the title ¿Galilei Opere Tom. IV,¿ was almost certainly commissioned by the publisher or its owner to accompany the three-volume edition of Galileo¿s collected works (Florence 1718), which was printed WITHOUT the Dialogo and Lettera¿. Alla Granduchessa¿. A false Florentine imprint, the Neapolitan publisher remains unknown, as do the precise circumstances behind the publication, though it should probably be linked to the waning power of the Church¿s prohibition in the face of strong commercial interests as well as to the gradual rehabilitation of Galileo in 18th C Italy, evinced, among other events, by the eventual transfer of the astronomer¿s remains to the family tomb in Santa Croce in the early 1730¿s. Though there were several intervening Latin translations of the Dialogo, this is only the second appearance of the original text. * Cinti 168; Carli & Favoro 413; PMM 128. Nº de ref. de la librería 4675

Descripción: For J. Hooke, London: 1730., 1730. 4to. A4, b2, B-3P4, 3Q6. xi, (1), 360, 369-497, (3)p. Contemporary polished calf, rebacked and restored, title in gilt on red label to spine. Title page in red and black ink, pagination numbers 361-68 omitted (as usual), very faint dampstain to lower right corner of book, some dampstaining to inner margin at end of book. Pencil note to 2A3, outer margin. Corner torn away to 2C3, 3H3, 3A3, no text affect (3A3 also with clean tear at top, no affect). Few light stains. Bookplate ÒRoyal Military Academy Library.Ó Contemporary presentation inscription to first blank, ÒPresented to the Royal Artillery LibraryÓ. Small contemporary ownerÕs signature to title pages ÒJohn Mair?Ó Includes errata and ads. Despite minor flaws, a great copy of a very rare and important book. Numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, one plate (p.436). First obtainable English edition. Only one copy of the complete original English edition (1665) known to exist. Recognized as the first modern textbook of physics and the foundation of the modern science of mechanic. The first translation into English of the work appeared in Vol. II, Part 1 of Thomas Salusbury's Mathematical Collections and Translations in Two Parts. However, nearly all copies of that volume, published in 1665, were consumed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, with only about ten copies of Vol. II, Part I being known to have survived, and only one copy of Vol. II, Part II believed extant. Realistically this (1730 edition) is the earliest copy obtainable. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian scientist who formulated the basic law of falling bodies, which he verified by careful measurements. He constructed a telescope with which he studied lunar craters, and discovered four moons revolving around Jupiter and espoused the Copernican cause. ÒThe Mathematical Discourses and Demonstrations is now considered by most scientists as GalileoÕs greatest work. It was upon his (GalileoÕs) foundation that Huygens, Newton and others were able to erect the frame of the science of dynamics, and to extend its range (with the concept of universal gravitation) to the heavenly bodiesÓ - PMM 130. ÒThe title of his final work, Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences (generally known in English by the last three words), hardly conveys a clear idea of its organization and contents. The two sciences with which the book principally deals are the engineering science of strength of materials and the mathematical science of kinematics. The first, as Galileo presents it, is founded on the law of the lever; breaking strength is treated as a branch of statics. The second has its basis in the assumption of uniformity and simplicity in nature, complemented by certain dynamic assumptions. Galileo is clearly uncomfortable about the necessity of borrowing anything from mechanics in his mathematical treatment of motion. A supplementary justification for that procedure was dictated later by the blind Galileo for inclusion in future editions. Of the four dialogues contained in the book, the last two are devoted to the treatment of uniform and accelerated motion and the discussion of parabolic trajectories. The first two deal with problems related to the constitution of matter; the nature of mathematics; the place of experiment and reason in science; the weight of air; the nature of sound; the speed of light; and other fragmentary comments on physics as a whole. Thus Galileo's Two New Sciences underlies modern physics not only because it contains the elements of the mathematical treatment of motion, but also because most of the problems that came rather quickly to be seen as problems amenable to physical experiment and mathematical analysis were gathered together in this book with suggestive discussions of their possible solution. Philosophical considerations as such were minimized.Ó - History of Science Collection, Linda Hall Library. ÒGalileoÕs last work represents the first systematic attem. Nº de ref. de la librería 20646

Descripción: Jean-Antoine Huguetan the elder, Lyon, 1641. Hardcover. Estado de conservación: Fine. 2nd Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Systema cosmicum: in quo dialogis IV. de duobus maximis mundi systematibus, Ptolemaico et Copernicano, translated from Italian by Matthias Bernegger (1582-1640). Lyons: Jean-Antoine Huguetan the elder, 1641. 4to (228 x 173mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by C. Audran. Engraved additional title, title printed in red and black with engraved publisher's device. Woodcut illustrations and diagrams. With errata leaf 3D4. Variable spotting and browning, portrait and additional title skilfully repaired and reinserted, some leaves with repaired marginal tears and worming sometimes affecting catchwords. 17th-century English speckled calf, covers with blind-ruled borders, spine gilt in compartments with morocco lettering-piece, red edges (lightly chipped and scuffed, cracking on joints, rejointed, neat repairs to corners). Provenance: Sir William Dawes, Bt (1671-1724, chaplain in ordinary to King William III and Queen Anne, and Archbishop of York, bookplate on verso of title dated 1704). ---- Carli and Favaro 180; Cinti 109; Riccardi I, 1, 512, no. 10, 5. - Second Latin edition of the Dialogo, the summation of Galileo's astronomical work, and his celebrated advancement of the Copernican system in the form of an irrefutable hypothesis. The inconclusive debate on the subject between three participants which Pope Urban VIII had expected was hardly evident in the sure reasoning of Salviati, the pointed questioning of Sagredo, and the feeble responses of Simplicio (a figure sometimes equated with the Pope himself). While the hypothetical nature of the argument should not be forgotten, Galileo's book 'revels in the simplicity of Copernican thought and, above all, it teaches that the movement of the earth makes sense in philosophy, that is, in physics . The Dialogo, more than any other work, made the heliocentric system a commonplace' (PMM). The Italian first edition (Florence: 1632) was banned by the Pope and withdrawn from circulation shortly after publication, leading to the author's trial and imprisonment a year later; it was followed by the first Latin edition, published in Strasbourg in 1635, which was translated by the history professor and mathematics enthusiast Matthias Bernegger at Galileo's request. Two important appendices by Kepler and Foscarini concerning the debate over the compatibility of the theory of the earth's movement with Scripture were also added to Galileo's text by Bernegger. Nº de ref. de la librería 001801

Descripción: alla Condotta, 1674. Hardcover. Estado de conservación: Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. [2] ff., (8), 149 pp, (3), 153-230 pp., 231-232 ff., 233-284 pp., 2 folding engraved plates. bound with [VIVIANI, Vincenzo]. Enodatio Problematum universis geometris Propositorum [¿] Praemissis, horum occasione, Tentamentis Variis ad Solutionem illustris veterum Problematis De Anguli Trisectione. Florence, Gugliantini, 1677. [2] ff, (6), 63 pp., 4 folding engraved plates. With presentation inscription to verso of half-title of first work signed by Viviani. Bound in contemporary calf with spine in six compartments. A wonderfully fresh copy, light toning and foxing to one or two leaves, otherwise excellent. First complete edition (second; first 1674, see below) of this important Galileianum, an assembly of previously unpublished writings by Galileo, together with texts by Torricelli and Viviani himself, inscribed by Viviani to an unknown (scored) receipient. Vincenzo Viviani resided with Galileo at Arectri from October 1639 as his pupil, amanuensis, and assistant, and together with Torricelli, spent the last months of Galileo¿s life with him recording the master¿s final meditations on the relationship between mathematics and physics. The first chapter of this work, a dialogue entitled ¿Quinto Libro degli Elementi d¿Euclide. spiegata colla Dottrina del Galileo¿ was dictated by Galileo to Torricelli in November 1641. (Galileo died January 9, 1642.) Though on his deathbed, it was to be the beginning of still another book continuing the discussion between his three old interlocutors from the Two New Sciences. In this dialogue, printed here and edited from a manuscript given to Viviani by Cardinal De¿ Medici, Galileo reflects upon two definitions found in Euclid¿s Elements, ¿same ratio¿ and ¿compound ratio,¿ which were ¿the two most important keys taken from antiquity in creating Galileo¿s mathematical physics, so that his exposition of them as the last act of his scientific career reflected his earliest scientific steps at Pisa and Padua. Like the Leaning Tower affair, this dialogue linked his last days with his first; Galileo had come full circle¿ (Drake, p. 421). As a young man, Galileo was profoundly influenced by the Elements, especially Books Five and Six which contained the Eudoxian theory of proportion. ¿The importance of the Eudoxian proportion theory to Galileo¿s science cannot be exaggerated. Until the application of algebra to the general solution of geometrical (as well as arithmetical) problems, not achieved until after Galileo¿s work was completed, rigorous connection of mathematics with physical events was possible only through some theory of proportionality. Eudoxian theory establishing proportionality between continuous magnitudes was essential to any great advance over medieval physics¿ (Drake, p. 4). Viviani ¿with the rigor and prolixity of the ancients¿devoted an appendix to geometric problems, among which was one on the trisection of an angle, solved by the use of the cylindrical spiral or of a cycloid; another was the problem of duplicating the cube, solved by means of conics or of the cubic xy2 =k¿ (DSB). . Nº de ref. de la librería 4910

Descripción: Tartini e Franchi, 1718. Leather Bound. Estado de conservación: Used: Good. 3 volume complete set. Opere, Nuova Edizione. 4to, contemporary vellum. First complete edition of Galileo's works, with half-title and errata. Unmarked pages. Minor shelf wear/soiling to cover. Foot of one spine chipped. First few leaves of each volume stained, apparently from attempt to remove an ownership inscription. Minor foxing. Private library blindstamp on title pages. Italian. Canti 180; Riccardi I, 520, Honeyman Sale 1419. Nº de ref. de la librería 1002260002

Descripción: G.G. Tartini & Santi Franchi, Florence, 1718. Second collected edition of the works of Galileo containing nearly 500 pages of writings, not included in the first collected edition in two volumes from 1656-55, and previously unpublished. In the third volume of the present edition appears here for the first time Galileo’s remarkable treatise on probability Sopra la scoperte dei dadi (see Hald and David), his notes on the Sidereus Nuncius (the treatise on sunspots) and a large of important letters to and from supporters and antagonists alike.The present edition reprints such epoch-making titles as the Sidereus Nuncius, the treatise on the proportional compass – generally considered the forerunner of the modern calculator -, and Galileo’s greatest achievement in physics, the Discorsi e Demonstrazioni Mathematichi but does not contain the Dialogo Hald, A History of Probability and Statistics and their Applications before 1750, p. 41. An English translation by E.H. Thorne of Galileo's treatise Sopra la scoperte dei dadi (On a discovery concerning dice) is appended to David's Games, Gods and Gambling.Cinti 170; Carli & Favaro 431; Riccardi I, 520; Honeyman 1419. 3 vols. 4to: 248 x 177 mm. Bound in three uniform contemporary calf bindings with rich spine gilding, some professional leather restoration to capitals of spine, otherwise fine and unrepaired. Finely engraved portrait of Galileo, general title in red & black with engraved vignette, cxii 628 [2]; [8] 722 [2]; [54] 484 [4], and 1 engraved folding plate of the engraved the proportional compass. Fine and clean throughout. Scarce in such good condition. Nº de ref. de la librería 2706

Descripción: For Pierre Rocolet, Paris, 1639. Paper wraps. Estado de conservación: Good+ with no dust jacket. First Edition. Science; Physics; Mechanics; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; Later paper wrappers, lacking 2 front blanks, lacking pp 85-96 & pp 147-158. Woodcut illus. Throughout text, 1 folding plate; creased & repaired on verso. Worming to upper fore-edge margins. Nonetheless a very rare nicely illustrated copy of this work published during Galileo's lifetime. He probably died at the age of 77 on Jan-8,1642 in Arcetri Italy. New thoughts of Galilei, mathematician and engineer . Or wonderful inventions, demonstrations . Unknown at present, it is treatise on the proportion of movements, both natural and violent, and of all that is most subtle in the Mechanics and in physic. Provenance- Sessler's Book Store, Mabel Zahn, ; Wasserman. Nº de ref. de la librería 32753

Descripción: Bologna per gli HH. del Dozza 1655, 1655. First edition printed by Dozza preceeded only by the first printing of 1638. With woodcut title device and numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations throughout. 4to, original sheets sewn and unbound. [viii], 238 [Tavola, 6] pp. A very clean and very attractive copy, beautifully preserved. FIRST DOZZA PRINTING. Considered to be Galileo's greatest work, and the foundation of modern physics, the DISCORSI E DIMOSTRAZIONI falls into three sections. The first comprises a theoretical investigation of the strength of materials, a subject which he was able to ground in an almost correct mathematical basis. The second is a discussion of various subjects such as motion, infinity, the existence of a vacuum and the weight of air, the cohesion of bodies, and others. The final section is devoted to the science of motion. In his DIALOGO Galileo had treated the subject of motion philosophically; here he provides mathematical underpinnings for his definitions of uniform and accelerated motion. "It was upon his foundations that Huygens, Newton, and others were able to erect the frame of the science of dynamics, and to extend its range (with the concept of universal gravitation) to the heavenly bodies" (PMM). "After Galileo's trial and conviction by the Holy Office in 1633, he was placed under house arrest, and the Congregation of the Index forbade the printing of any of his books. To add to his woes, he was rapidly losing his sight, and the death of his beloved elder daughter in 1634 left him seriously depressed. Nevertheless, Galileo persevered with the Discorsi, and by 1635 had virtually completed the work. A manuscript copy was smuggled into France and later taken to Holland, where the Elzeviers in Leiden undertook its publication" (Norman). "Considered the first modern textbook in physics, in it Galileo pressed forward the experimental and mathematical methods in the analysis of problems in mechanics and dynamics. The Aristotelian conception of motion was replaced by a new one of inertia and general principles were sought and found in the motion of falling bodies, projectiles, and in the pendulum" (Dibner). Nº de ref. de la librería 24384

Descripción: Jean-Antoine Huguetan, Lyon, 1641. Couverture souple. Estado de conservación: Bon. Plein vélin d'époque. Dos lisse. In-4 (22,5x17,2 cm) de [8] ff., 378 pp., [11] ff. Le titre frontispice a été relié en face du portrait de Galilée. La reliure a été touchée par une mouillure, atteignant fortement les premiers feuillets puis s'estompant ensuite. L'ensemble a été finement restauré. Le corps d'ouvrage a été démonté, nettoyé puis remonté. Avec l'allongement induit, le papier dépasse de quelques millimètres de la reliure et présente par ailleurs des rousseurs parfois fortes sur certains cahiers. L'ensemble forme néanmoins un agréable exemplaire dans sa reliure d'époque. Rare seconde édition latine publiée un an avant le décès de Galilée. Galilée défend ici les idées de Copernic sur l'héliocentrisme. Il utilise la forme d'un "dialogue" entre trois amis où durant quatre jours sont exposés les deux systèmes du monde. Le premier, Salviati (= Galilée) défend le système copernicien. Le second Simplicio(= Siimplicius, le commentateur d'Aristote ou Simplicio = "naif", le Pape d'après certains) défend bien mal le système ptolémaïque, et enfin Sagredo faisant l'arbitre. Mais l'exposé est inéquitable. La thèse de l'héliocentrisme triomphe devant des arguments clairs et convaincants tandis que Simplicio se débat dans ses explications alambiquées. Galilée sera condamné par l'inquisition pour ses idées. ___________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ENGLISH_DESCRIPTION______________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ __________ Contemporary full vellum. Flat spine. 4to (8,9x6,8 inches) of [8] ff., 378 pp., [11] ff. The extra engraved half-title is bound after the portrait. The binding was waterstain affected, reaching mostly the first pages. It has been expertly restored. The body of the book has been disassembled, cleaned and reassembled. With the elongation induced, paper exceeds a few millimeters of the binding. Some gatherings are fairly heavily browned as usual. Still a good copy in its old vellum binding. Second latin edition of galileo's most famous work, containing his defence of the Copernican system. This was the treatise that led directly to Galileo's trial for heresy in Rome. Urban VIII identified himself with Simplicio, one of the three participants in the dialogue (along with Salviati and Sagredo), and to avenge this slight he had Galileo arrested while Galileo's protector the Grand Duke of Tuscany was absent from Florence. Simplicio's role in the Dialogo was to be a "filosofo peripatetico" who would cling doggedly to the writings of Aristotle, despite contradictory evidence provided by the learned Salviati (a friend, representing Galileo's Copernican stance) and Sagredo (another of Galileo's friends, an amateur with an informed interest in the new astronomy). In 4 526g. Nº de ref. de la librería 396

Descripción: Giunti. Hardcover. Estado de conservación: New. 20 volumes in 21 tomes (size 215 x 295 mm) printed on handmade paper for a total of 11.500 pages, with numerous illustrations, facsimiles and plates. The edition isin half-leather binding. THE EXTRAORDINARY adventure which has freed man from the 'closed world', projecting him into the incommensurable spaces of the `infinite universe' has certainly had Galileo Galilei among its most outstanding protagonists. The National Edition of his works represents a veritable monument to the genius and to the singular tenacity of the scientist. The 11.500 pages contain not only all that Galileo wrote but also all the documents useful to perfectly understand the often dramatic events of a life entirely devoted to the intellectual and moral progress of humanity. In these works Galileo, one of the classics of Italian literature, offers the reader splendidly written pages. His crisp, fluent, lively prose, proves to be an invaluable instrument to express the most complex thoughts with extraordinary naturalness, as well as an unequalled masterpiece of scientific language. The National Edition originated from an initiative of the glorious publishing house Barbera and was entrusted to the care of the great Galileo scholar Antonio Favaro. As such, it gathers in orderly arrangement the published and unpublished writings of the scientist from Pisa, including the whole bulk of his correspondence and the participation of supporters and detractors in the debate provoked by the new discoveries in astronomy. It also includes the most accurate and precious reproduction of Galileo's star charts, of the drawings and sketches employed by him in order to clarify graphically his own thought, and finally the biographical accounts by his contemporaries. The volumes are complemented by an extensive critical and philological apparatus Our Promise to You: ALL OUR DUST JACKETS COME WITH CLEAR BRODART PROTECTIVE COVERS. (Please read listing to determine if this book comes with a dust jacket.) Your order will be CAREFULLY PACKAGED IN A BOX for safe transition. We strive for 100% customer satisfaction!. Nº de ref. de la librería 44570

Descripción: 1966. Paperback. Estado de conservación: Fine. GALILEO GALILEI. LE OPERE DI GALILEO GALILEI, NUOVA RISTAMPA DELLA EDIZIONE NAZIONALE, COMPLETE IN 20 VOLUMES (i.e. 21 volumes: Vol. III. is bound in two parts). Firenze: G. Barbera, 1966, except for Vol. III, Part 1: Firenze: G. Barbera, 1892. Various pagination. Thick 4tos, printed paper wrappers, bookblocks sewn. Originally published in 1909. Overall this is a clean and attractive set, printed on high quality paper with wide margins (ideal for binding). Most of the volumes are unopened at top edge. A few volumes have some thumbing to corners or closed tears at edges of wrappers. Notable imperfections of the fine set are: volume II has a small stain on front wrapper. Vol. II, Part 1. has dust-soiled wrappers and the bookblock is split in two; however, the text is complete and clean. Volume III Part I is supplied from the earlier printing of 1892 has discreet library markings on the title page, the cover is detached and the block is split. This is truly an astounding wealth of knowledge. Works encompass Galileo's discoveries in physics, mechanics, astronomy, navigation, mathematics, his inventions (geometic compass et al.), the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (I Due Massimi Sistemi Del Mondo, for which he stood trial as heretic for proposing his theory of heliocentrism), and Two New Sciences (Le Nuove Scienze). Text in Latin and Italian, and notes in Italian. B/w illustrations/diagrams. Nº de ref. de la librería 81940

Descripción: [Florence], 10. VIII. 1631., 1631. Large 4to. 2 pp. on double leaf (including address). With a list of debtors: 7 pp. on 6 ff. Folio. To the Florentine patrician Alessandro Caccini, requesting him to grant his deserving employee Niccolaio Martinetti a pension. Del Turco adds not only a list of the principal works executed by his shop (with prices), but also an extensive list of his debtors ("Lista di Debitori del Faglio levata ad di 11 di Luglio 1631"). The very first person on the list is none other than Galileo Galilei, whose epoch-making "Dialogo sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo" was just going into print in Florence - the book for which he was to be brought to trial in 1633. The list does not tell us which work Galilei had commissioned from Caccini; however, his debt, running to 26,12.8 Scudi, is relatively small compared to the 300 Scudi owed by Grand Duke Ferdinando II or the 1330 Scudi owed by the heirs of the Florentine theologian Giovanni Bandini, who had died in 1628 as Capitular of St. Peter's and whose debts evidently proved hard to collect. - Strong waterstains and defects to edges throughout, but well legible. Nº de ref. de la librería 21413

Descripción: H H de Duciis, Bononiae, 1655. Rilegato. Estado de conservación: ottimo. seconda edizione. [Fig. Astronomia-Fisica] (cm. 23,2) bella brossura del XX secolo realizzata con due fogli di messale del '500, in gotico rosso e nero con due grandi capolettera figurati in xilografia.--2 pp. + pp 60, varie illustrazioni in xilografia nel testo. E' il primo trattato d'astronomia sperimentale da osservazioni telescopiche. La prima edizione di mitica rarità è del 1610, questa è la seconda, dalle "Opere" del Dozza. La "Continuazione" è tolta dall'introduzione dell'opera di Keplero del 1611 "Dioptrice". In fine si trovano in prima edizione due lettere di Galilei circa Venere, Marte, Saturno, e la Luna. L'opera contiene il resoconto delle ricerche astronomiche compiute nel 1609-1610 utilizzando il canocchiale. Scoprì che la luna non è liscia, scoprì moltissime stelle: Pleiadi, Orione ecc. Vide Giove con 3 pianeti poi scopre il quarto satellite e li battezza "Medicea Sidera". Il nostro esemplare è completo anche della carta preliminare con l'occhietto e la scritta "opere di Galileo volume secondo". Alcune carte leggermente ombrate come di consueto e prime carte con lievissime fioriture marginali, peraltro esemplare bello, nitido e marginoso. * Cinti 132; * Riccardi I 518; * Autori italiani del '600 1562; * Gamba 482; Sotheran I 1435; * Houzeau-Lancaster 3386.[f54]. Nº de ref. de la librería 001284

Descripción: Frambotto, Padua, 1649. Paper-Covered Boards. Estado de conservación: Very Good. Illustrated by Folding Plate Ilustrador. Third Edition. Untrimmed gatherings bound in early nineteenth century paper covered boards retaining original sewing. One folding plate. Professional restorations to edges of Title & Dedication leaves not affecting text. Resorations to Preface leaf with replacement of four letters on recto and six letters of verso. Do not hesitate to request additional images. ; Octavo; Additional images and further information provided upon request. Nº de ref. de la librería 112

Descripción: Nella Stamperia del Seminario,, In Padova, 1744. Quattro volumi di cm. 25, pp. (8) lxxxviii, 601 (1); (4) 564; (4) 486; (8) 342 (2). Con una tavola ripiegata e molte figure incise nel testo. Legatura in cart. antico ricoperto di carta marmorizzata rossa e dorsi riforzati posteriormente in tela. Titoli a stampa su tasselli. Esemplare internamente fresco, marginoso ed in ottimo stato di conservazione. Privo però di antiporta e ritratto. Cfr. Cinti. Nº de ref. de la librería 39955

Descripción: Bologna HH. del Dozza 1655, 1655. Early Printing and First Collected Edition, printed with independent pagination and included in the First Printing of the OPERA in 1655. With woodcut device on the title-page and woodcut diagrams and charts throughout the text. 4to, original unbound sewn sheets. 43, (1) pp. A fine and fresh copy, clean and crisp withal. FIRST DOZZA PRINTING, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION PRECEEDED BY THE 1649 PRINTING. THE PRECURSOR TO THE ÒDISCORSIÓ. Included as well, is the printing of LA BILANCETTA. It is agreed that his work on proving the science of Archimedes is the first scientific work written by Galileo and it is noted as having been originally composed in the 1580Õs. The work was printed for a general public audience for the first time in the OPERE, done in Bologna in 1655-56 and published 11 years after the first printing though the famous engraved rendering of the Archimedean device was not printed in the OPERE. It was during this period (around 1585-6) that we hear of Galileo lecturing before the Florentine Academy on the site and dimensions of DanteÕs INFERNO; and he shorltly afterward published his essay descriptive of his invention of the hydrostatic balance, which rapidly made his name known throughout Italy. His first patron was the Marchese Guidubaldo del Monte of Pesaro, a man equally eminent in science, and influential through family connections. At the MarcheseÕs request he wrote, in 1588, a treatise on the centre of gravity in solids, which obtained for him, together with the title of Òthe Archimedes of his time,Ó the honourable though not lucrative post of mathematical lecturer at the Pisan university. During the ensuing two years (1589-1591) he carried on that remarkable series of experiments by which he established the first principles of dynamics. ÔGalileoÕs application through diligence in reviewing ArchimedesÕ work enlightened him.with a way that yielded the desired result with almost unbelievable precision.so much so that he became convinced that it was the method Archimedes himself actually employed.The tables in which Galileo lists the specific gravities of various metals and jewels were obviously made with the aid of the bilancetta, and give early proof of his skill in experimentation and measurementÕ Wallace, GALILEO AND HIS SOURCES,pp. 221-22. Nº de ref. de la librería 24090

Descripción: Bologna HH. del Dozza 1655, 1655. First Collected Edition and only the second issuance, printed with independent pagination and included in the First Printing of the OPERA in 1655. With woodcut device on the title-page. 4to, original unbound sewn sheets. 188; 189-264pp. A fine and fresh copy, clean and crisp withal. SCARCE AND IMPORTANT. GALILEOÕS FINAL WORK ON FLOATING BODIES and his important findings and answers to Lodovico Delle Colombe and Vincenzo Di Gratia with illustrations from the work of Piccolomini and Sticciano. Cinti 51 notes: ÒLudovico delle Colombe rispose nel 1612 con il suo ÒDiscorso ApologeticoÓ, cui fece seguito nel 1613 lÕopera di Vincenzo di Grazia ÒConsiderazioni sopro Ôl Discorso di Galileo GalileiÓ.D.S.B. V, pp. 241-2: ÒUsing the concept of moment and the principle of virtual velocities, Galileo extended the scope of the Archimedean work beyond purely hydrostatic considerations.The Book on Bodies in water drew attacks from four Aristotelian professors at Florence and Pisa.Galileo prepared answers to his critics, which he turned over to Castelli for publication in order to avoid personal involvement. Detailed replies to two of them.written principally by Galileo himself appeared anonymously in 1615, with a prefatory note by Castelli implying that he was the author ad that Galileo would have been more severe.Ó. Nº de ref. de la librería 18828

Descripción: tip. Salmin,, Padova, 1896. Mm. 19 x 13, pp. 206. Ritratto di Galileo inciso all'antiporta. Bross. orig. con titoli a stampa. Qualche segno d'uso esterno ed una fenditura al dorso, peraltro ben conservato. Questo celebre libro di formato minuscolo si dichiara essere il più piccolo mai stampato con caratteri mobili. Il carattere utilizzato è noto con il nome di "occhio di mosca" e fu utilizzato dallo stesso editore per l'altrettanto celebre stampa di Dante del 1878. In fine appare la dicitura: stampato coi caratteri del Dantino onde superare qualsiasi altra minuscola edizione, Maggio 1897. Cfr. Welsh, A bibliography of miniature books, 2935; Fumagalli (Lexicon a pag. 276): ".Les frères Salmin publièrent en 1897 une Lettera a Galileo. qui est, peut-etre, le plus petit livre du monde, veritable.". Nº de ref. de la librería 31635

Descripción: Heredi Dozza, Bologna, 1655. Rilegato. Estado de conservación: ottimo. seconda edizione. [Fig. Astronomia] (cm.23,5) ottimo cartonato recente,uso antico,sguardie antiche.-- cc. 4 nn., pp. 179 + 1 p. con l' errata. Varie figure xilografiche nel testo con schemi e strumenti. Dedica a Urbano Ottavo. Opera celeberrima apparsa nel 1623 in polemica col gesuita Orazio Grassi e a parziale sostegno delle teorie copernicane. Seconda edizione tratta dalla prima edizione delle "Opere" stampate a Bologna da Dozza nel 1655. Come riferisce Gamba, il Saggiatore vi fu inserito posteriormente, e varie copie dell' "Opera Omnia" ne sono prive. Bell'esemplare, fresco e ben marginato. * Riccardi I 511 e 518; * Cinti 132; * Carli-Favaro 251; * Gamba 482; * Piantanida 1562; * Sotheran I 1435; * Houzeau-Lancaster 3386.[f54]. Nº de ref. de la librería 001285

Descripción: Societa Editrice Fiorentina, Firenze, 1842. Hardcover. Estado de conservación: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition thus. Complete set in 16 volumes. Italian text. 1842, First Edition of the complete works. Hardcovers, 8vo., bound in uniform 3/4 green goat with gilt ruling, titles and top edges; 5 raised bands on spines. Tissue- covered frontis on Vol. 1 only. Ex-library copies, with 2 old stickers on each spine, bookplate on all front pastedowns, and blindstamp on each title page. The text has remained in impressive condition; bright, unmarked and free of any foxing or library marking. There is rubbing to the leather tips and edges; outer hinges starting to dry; shallow loss to some spines. Complete set in 16 vols. Digital images available upon request. Nº de ref. de la librería 0066869

Descripción: G. Barbera,, Firenze, 1964. Diciannove parti in 20 volumi (il terzo volume è diviso in due parti) di cm. 30, pp. 10.000 ca. complessive. Bross. orig. con velina protettiva. Ottima conservazione, a fogli chiusi. Stimata edizione. Al nostro esemplare manca il tredicesimo volume. Nº de ref. de la librería 36140

Descripción: Nella Stamperia del Seminario,, In Padova, 1744. Cm. 25,5, pp. (8) 342 (2). Con grande marchio tipografico al frontespizio e molte figure incise nel testo (perlopiù schematiche). Legatura orig. in cartonato alla rustica con nervi passanti e titolo ms. al dorso. Un timbro di biblioteca religiosa estinta al frontespizio, qualche trascurabile forellino di tarlo marginale alle carte centrali (lontano dal testo), peraltro esemplare genuino e marginoso (in barbe), ben conservato. Volume che l'editore Manfré volle pubblicare autonomamente e che era già apparso lo stesso anno come volume quarto delle opere complete. Rispetto a quest'ultimo Manfré cambiò il frontespizio e tolse la dicitura tomo quarto (che rimane solo, per una sua imperdonabile dimenticanza al termine del testo). Nº de ref. de la librería 39954