BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso (1608-1679). De Motionibus Naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus, Reggio di Calabria: in officina Dominici Ferri, 1670, 4°, FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY FROM THE LIBRARY OF PIETRO BARTOLI, woodcut diagrams, device on title (light but persistent dampstains, 4A2 holed at lower margin, half title neatly-repaired at inner margin and with typed exhibition note about the book tipped-in, John Crerar bookplate also tipped-in between half title and title), contemporary vellum (inner hinges split). [Hoover 148; Riccardi I, 159.10] Provenance: "cum charactere Danielii Bartoli S.J." (inscription on spine, further inscription on front cover); "Ex libris P. Bartoli e Societati Jesu donum P. Rodulphi Bratonola" (inscription on front free endpaper); "attesto io sottoscritto, il caratterie di rincontro essere tutto di propria mano del P. Bartoli, G. Boero" (inscription on front pastedown); Herbert McLean Evans (bookplate); JCL

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BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso (1608-1679). De Motionibus Naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus, Reggio di Calabria: in officina Dominici Ferri, 1670, 4°, FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY FROM THE LIBRARY OF PIETRO BARTOLI, woodcut diagrams, device on title (light but persistent dampstains, 4A2 holed at lower margin, half title neatly-repaired at inner margin and with typed exhibition note about the book tipped-in, John Crerar bookplate also tipped-in between half title and title), contemporary vellum (inner hinges split). [Hoover 148; Riccardi I, 159.10] Provenance: "cum charactere Danielii Bartoli S.J." (inscription on spine, further inscription on front cover); "Ex libris P. Bartoli e Societati Jesu donum P. Rodulphi Bratonola" (inscription on front free endpaper); "attesto io sottoscritto, il caratterie di rincontro essere tutto di propria mano del P. Bartoli, G. Boero" (inscription on front pastedown); Herbert McLean Evans (bookplate); JCL

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"This professor of mathematics at Messina and Pisa was known for his wide-ranging contributions to astronomy, physiology, physics, and volcanology as well as mathematics. In this book he discusses siphons, pumps, and the nature of fluidity and delves into many other chemical and physical processes" (Hoover). The work is noted as the first treatise on capillarity, in which the author formulates the law that the height of the ascent of liquids in capillary tubes is inversely proportional to their diameters.

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