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BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso. De motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus, liber. Reggio Calabria: Domenico Ferri, 1670. 4° (222 x 154mm). Half-title, title ruled in red, woodcut initials, headpieces, and diagrams. (Aaa1 with small chip to top corner, hole to Kkk4 not affecting text, occasional light soiling.) Contemporary vellum, early manuscript to spine (spine lightly soiled). Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield (bookplate and blindstamps, sale Sotheby's, 10 June 2004, lot 387).
FIRST EDITION. This companion volume to De vi percussionis (see lot 64) is devoted particularly to the study of liquids, and was intended as a preliminary to his final work De motu animalium (1679). Borelli had initially demonstrated his findings to the Accademia del Cimento in Florence. In 1667, however, he passed through Naples and repeated a number of his experiments for the Neapolitan Accademia degli Investiganti. As a result, the secretary of the Investiganti, the Calabrese nobleman Andrea Concublet, arranged for the publication of this work. Carli-Favaro 78 (329); Cinti 291 (147); De Caro 54; Riccardi I 159.
FIRST EDITION. This companion volume to De vi percussionis (see lot 64) is devoted particularly to the study of liquids, and was intended as a preliminary to his final work De motu animalium (1679). Borelli had initially demonstrated his findings to the Accademia del Cimento in Florence. In 1667, however, he passed through Naples and repeated a number of his experiments for the Neapolitan Accademia degli Investiganti. As a result, the secretary of the Investiganti, the Calabrese nobleman Andrea Concublet, arranged for the publication of this work. Carli-Favaro 78 (329); Cinti 291 (147); De Caro 54; Riccardi I 159.
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