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HERO of Alexandria (fl. A.D. 62). Gli Artifitiosi et Curiosi Moti Spiritali . . . aggiontovi dal medesimo Quattro Theoremi non men belli, & curiosi de'gli altri. Translated by Giovanni Battista Aleotti. Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini, 1589.
4° (210 x 155mm). Title with elaborate woodcut border and dedicatee's arms (ownership inscription in lower margin pasted over), title to second part with woodcut device, woodcut illustrations throughout, woodcut initials and head and tailpieces. (Occasional light staining.) Modern roan gilt (head and foot of spine damaged).
An extensively illustrated abridgement of Hero's celebrated treatise on pneumatics. Aleotti's translation deals with Hero's work on siphons and fluxions, but also illustrates and describes his more light-hearted inventions and experiments, including an apparatus that makes a sound like various different singing birds accompanied by trumpets, a jug that will store and pour out separately or in constant proportions three different sorts of wine, and a sculpture of Hercules and a dragon, which, whan a knob is pushed, makes Hercules fire an arrow at the dragon, and the dragon hiss in return. The four theorems added at the end of the work include a more advanced version of the Hercules and the dragon toy and a fountain with a hidden trumpet-blowing Triton. Adams H-367.
4° (210 x 155mm). Title with elaborate woodcut border and dedicatee's arms (ownership inscription in lower margin pasted over), title to second part with woodcut device, woodcut illustrations throughout, woodcut initials and head and tailpieces. (Occasional light staining.) Modern roan gilt (head and foot of spine damaged).
An extensively illustrated abridgement of Hero's celebrated treatise on pneumatics. Aleotti's translation deals with Hero's work on siphons and fluxions, but also illustrates and describes his more light-hearted inventions and experiments, including an apparatus that makes a sound like various different singing birds accompanied by trumpets, a jug that will store and pour out separately or in constant proportions three different sorts of wine, and a sculpture of Hercules and a dragon, which, whan a knob is pushed, makes Hercules fire an arrow at the dragon, and the dragon hiss in return. The four theorems added at the end of the work include a more advanced version of the Hercules and the dragon toy and a fountain with a hidden trumpet-blowing Triton. Adams H-367.