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CAMPANELLA, Tommaso (1568-1639). Apologia pro Galileo. Frankfurt: E. Kempfer for G. Tampachius, 1622.
4° (213 x 167mm). Complete with final blank, typographical title within allegorical engraved surround, without the final blank. (Worming affecting engraved title surround and extending into margin of first gathering, title trimmed close into engraving at fore-margin, light browning throughout.) Disbound, loosely contained within modern card wrapper.
FIRST EDITION of this early defence of Galileo's espousal of the Copernican system. It was written at the height of the Copernican controversy in 1616, the year which saw the suspension of De revolutionibus and the initial censuring of Galileo. Campanella wrote it during his long period of imprisonment in Naples; he was later to remind Galileo that 'my writing alone is printed in your defence, and not that of others' (Ernst). The present work is recognized as rare by Brunet and 'rarissimo' by Riccardi. Brunet I, 1520; Cinti 71; G. Ernst, 'Astrology and Prophecy in Campanella and Galileo', Culture and Cosmos, 7.1 (2003), 21; Riccardi I, 217.
4° (213 x 167mm). Complete with final blank, typographical title within allegorical engraved surround, without the final blank. (Worming affecting engraved title surround and extending into margin of first gathering, title trimmed close into engraving at fore-margin, light browning throughout.) Disbound, loosely contained within modern card wrapper.
FIRST EDITION of this early defence of Galileo's espousal of the Copernican system. It was written at the height of the Copernican controversy in 1616, the year which saw the suspension of De revolutionibus and the initial censuring of Galileo. Campanella wrote it during his long period of imprisonment in Naples; he was later to remind Galileo that 'my writing alone is printed in your defence, and not that of others' (Ernst). The present work is recognized as rare by Brunet and 'rarissimo' by Riccardi. Brunet I, 1520; Cinti 71; G. Ernst, 'Astrology and Prophecy in Campanella and Galileo', Culture and Cosmos, 7.1 (2003), 21; Riccardi I, 217.
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