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GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Systema cosmicum: in quo dialogis iv. de duobus maximis mundi systematibus, Ptolemaico & Copernicano, rationibus utrinque propositis indefinite disseritur, translated from Italian by Matthias Bernegger (1582-1640). – Johannes KEPLER (1571-1630). Ex Introductione in Martem. – Paolo Antonio FOSCARINI (1565-1616). Locorum S. Scripturae cum terra mobilitate conciliatio, translated by Elia Diodati. Lyon: Jean-Antoine Huguetan the elder, 1641.
Second Latin edition of the Dialogo, the summation of Galileo's astronomical work, and his celebrated advancement of the Copernican system. Soon after its first publication in Italian in 1632 (see lot 267), the Dialogo was banned by the Pope, withdrawn from circulation and its author imprisoned, but almost immediately, in 1633, work on a Latin translation was underway north of the Alps. It appeared in 1635, the work of the Protestant Bernegger, with collaboration from Galileo, and with two important appendices by Kepler and Foscarini addressing the compatability of the theory of the earth's movement with Scripture. Carli and Favaro 180; Cinti 109; Riccardi I, 1, 512, no. 10, 5.
Quarto (230 x 172mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved device, engraved frontispiece and portrait of Galileo by C. Audran, woodcut text diagrams, initials, head- and tailpieces, independent title-page for Foscarini's De mobilitate terrae (light dampstain at upper inside corner and occasionally elsewhere, some light browning and spotting, heavier in Tt, Xx, and Bbb). 20th-century vellum, spine lettered, two fore-edge ties, sprinkled edges.
Second Latin edition of the Dialogo, the summation of Galileo's astronomical work, and his celebrated advancement of the Copernican system. Soon after its first publication in Italian in 1632 (see lot 267), the Dialogo was banned by the Pope, withdrawn from circulation and its author imprisoned, but almost immediately, in 1633, work on a Latin translation was underway north of the Alps. It appeared in 1635, the work of the Protestant Bernegger, with collaboration from Galileo, and with two important appendices by Kepler and Foscarini addressing the compatability of the theory of the earth's movement with Scripture. Carli and Favaro 180; Cinti 109; Riccardi I, 1, 512, no. 10, 5.
Quarto (230 x 172mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved device, engraved frontispiece and portrait of Galileo by C. Audran, woodcut text diagrams, initials, head- and tailpieces, independent title-page for Foscarini's De mobilitate terrae (light dampstain at upper inside corner and occasionally elsewhere, some light browning and spotting, heavier in Tt, Xx, and Bbb). 20th-century vellum, spine lettered, two fore-edge ties, sprinkled edges.
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