GALILÉE, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze Attenenti alla Mecanica & i Movimenti Locali. Leyde: les Elzevier, 1638.
GALILÉE, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze Attenenti alla Mecanica & i Movimenti Locali. Leyde: les Elzevier, 1638.

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GALILÉE, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze Attenenti alla Mecanica & i Movimenti Locali. Leyde: les Elzevier, 1638.

Petit in-4 (200 x 153 mm). Nombreuses figures gravées sur bois dans le texte. (Très rares rousseurs.) Vélin à rabats de l'époque. Provenance: ex-libris manuscrit de l'époque -- Roger Budin (ex-libris).

ÉDITION ORIGINALE DE CET OUVRAGE CAPITAL dans lequel Galilée consigne ses découvertes sur la dynamique et la résistance des corps, donnant naissance à la dynamique moderne. Selon le mot d'Isabelle Stengers, les Discorsi consituent "son dernier grand oeuvre, véritable testament scientifique".
Après sa condamnation vaticane puis son abjuration, Galilée n'osa plus rien publier en Italie; il remit donc son manuscrit au comte de Noailles, ambassadeur de France, qui le fit imprimer en Hollande.
EXEMPLAIRE TRèS PUR, DANS SA PREMIèRE RELIURE EN VéLIN, BIEN COMPLET DE L'ERRATA. DSB 237; Horblit 36 ("The first modern textbook of physics; a foundation stone in the science of mechanics"); Dibner 141; Norman 859; PMM 130; Willems 468.
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First edition of Galileo's last and perhaps greatest work. "Two New Sciences underlines modern physics not only because it contains the elements of the mathematical treatment of motion, but also because most of the problems that came rather quickly to be seen as problems amenable to physical experiment and mathematical analysis were gathered together in this book with suggestive discussions of their possible solution" (DSB). Galileo sought and found general principles in the motion of falling bodies, projectiles and the pendulum. The concept of mass was implied by his conviction that in a vacuum all bodies would fall with the same acceleration. Galileo had begun a new era in the science of mechanics. "It was upon his foundations that Huygens, Newton and others were able to erect the frame of the science of dynamics, and to extend its range (with the concept of universal gravitation) to the heavenly bodies" (PMM). Fine copy.