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BOSCOVICH, Ruggiero Giuseppe (1711-87). De Aestu Maris dissertatio, habita. Rome: typis Komarek, [1747].
4° (210 x 160mm). Large woodcut device on title, woodcut head-piece and initial. (Repaired wormholes on title and several leaves sometimes touching text.) Modern boards.
FIRST EDITION of an important work in Boscovich’s continuing research into the motion of the Earth and his spread of Newton’s law of gravitation which is being constantly referred to in this book. According to Zelijko Markovic in Whyte, this book is especially important in Boscovich’s framing of his law of continuity, the basis for his concept of natural processes and his deductive proofs. The present ‘Pars prima’ is all that was published, the material intended for the second part being incorporated in the De expeditione litteraria (Rome 1755), and in Boscovich’s supplement to his edition of the Philosophiae of Benedict Stay (Rome 1760). RARE: no copy recorded at auction since 1964. Cf. Whyte, ed., Boscovich (London, 1961), pp. 133-4 and p. 215; Riccardi I, 175.
4° (210 x 160mm). Large woodcut device on title, woodcut head-piece and initial. (Repaired wormholes on title and several leaves sometimes touching text.) Modern boards.
FIRST EDITION of an important work in Boscovich’s continuing research into the motion of the Earth and his spread of Newton’s law of gravitation which is being constantly referred to in this book. According to Zelijko Markovic in Whyte, this book is especially important in Boscovich’s framing of his law of continuity, the basis for his concept of natural processes and his deductive proofs. The present ‘Pars prima’ is all that was published, the material intended for the second part being incorporated in the De expeditione litteraria (Rome 1755), and in Boscovich’s supplement to his edition of the Philosophiae of Benedict Stay (Rome 1760). RARE: no copy recorded at auction since 1964. Cf. Whyte, ed., Boscovich (London, 1961), pp. 133-4 and p. 215; Riccardi I, 175.
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