TORRICELLI (EVANGELISTA): DE SPHAERA ET SOLIDIS SPHAERALIBUS libri duo, Florence, typis Amatoris Masse & Laurentii de Landis, 1644, 2 parts in one, 4to, woodcut title vignette, full-page engraved illustration, woodcut diagrams (Z1-2B4 wormed and repaired at upper margin, with very slight affect on text, preliminaries to part II slightly soiled), 18th-century calf (rather worn). [Riccardi I, 543; Graesse VI, 177; not in Honeyman]

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TORRICELLI (EVANGELISTA): DE SPHAERA ET SOLIDIS SPHAERALIBUS libri duo, Florence, typis Amatoris Masse & Laurentii de Landis, 1644, 2 parts in one, 4to, woodcut title vignette, full-page engraved illustration, woodcut diagrams (Z1-2B4 wormed and repaired at upper margin, with very slight affect on text, preliminaries to part II slightly soiled), 18th-century calf (rather worn). [Riccardi I, 543; Graesse VI, 177; not in Honeyman]

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'Nel trattato de' projettili il Torricelli dimostra pel primo l'elegante proprietà che tutte le parabole descritte da' projetti lanciati da uno stesso punto, colla stessa forza, ma sotto angoli diversi, sono racchiuse da una nuova parabola tangente alle medesime' (Riccardi).

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