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ACCADEMIA DEL CIMENTO. Essayes of Natural Experiments made in the Academie del Cimento. London: Benjamin Alsop, 1684. Small 4° (232 x 177mm). Engraved title after R. Waller and 19 plates, with the final blank. Contemporary sprinkled calf (very neatly rebacked with old spine relaid, corners neatly repaired).
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION IN ENGLISH of this collection containing papers describing experiments on light, sound and electricity, translated by Richard Waller. First published in Florence in 1666, the book contains one of the first accounts of Toricelli's invention of the mercury barometer and its proper interpretation in terms of the weight of the atmosphere. Wheeler 196; Wing A161.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION IN ENGLISH of this collection containing papers describing experiments on light, sound and electricity, translated by Richard Waller. First published in Florence in 1666, the book contains one of the first accounts of Toricelli's invention of the mercury barometer and its proper interpretation in terms of the weight of the atmosphere. Wheeler 196; Wing A161.
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