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Beschreibung:

4°, circa 26,4 x 20 cm., 4 ff., LXXXVIII, 601 pp.; 2 ff.; 564 pp.; 2 ff., 486 pp.; 4 ff., 342 pp., 1 f., with vignettes on titles, engraved portrait by Zucchi, folding engraved plate and many woodcut diagrams and illustrations in the text. Half vellum (from around 1900) Mieli I, 273, III; Riccardi I/1, 522, 22; Cinti 176. - Important and very rare second 18th-century edition containing, as stated on the title, several hitherto unpublished works, including his Trattato del modo di misurare con la vista (pp. 592-602 in vol.I). Volume 4 contains the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo), first published in 1632. Despite taking care to adhere to the Inquisition's 1616 instructions, the claims in the book favouring Copernican theory and a non Geocentric model of the solar system led to Galileo being tried and banned on publication. Despite the ban, Galileo published his Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences (Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze) in 1638 in Holland, outside the jurisdiction of the Inquisition.

Bemerkung:

- Nice, only very little browning, few light stains in few margins, little marginal worming not touching the text. Endpapers renewed. Mostly very crisp, uncut and wide-margined.