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GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Systema cosmicum: in quo dialogis IV. de duobus maximis mundi systematibus, Ptolemaico et Copernicano, translated by Matthias Bernegger (1582-1640). Lyons: Jean-Antoine Huguetan the elder, 1641.
4° (228 x 173mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by C. Audran. Engraved additional title, title printed in red and black with engraved publisher's device. Woodcut illustrations and diagrams. With errata leaf 3D4. (Variable spotting and browning, portrait and additional title skilfully repaired and reinserted, some leaves with repaired marginal tears and worming sometimes affecting catchwords.) 17th-century English speckled calf, covers with blind-ruled borders, spine gilt in compartments with morocco lettering-piece, red edges (lightly chipped and scuffed, cracking on joints, rejointed, neat repairs to corners). Provenance: Sir William Dawes, Bt (1671-1724, chaplain in ordinary to King William III and Queen Anne, and Archbishop of York, bookplate on verso of title dated 1704).
Second Latin edition of the Dialogo, the summation of Galileo's astronomical work, and his celebrated advancement of the Copernican system in the form of an irrefutable hypothesis. The inconclusive debate on the subject between three participants which Pope Urban VIII had expected was hardly evident in the sure reasoning of Salviati, the pointed questioning of Sagredo, and the feeble responses of Simplicio (a figure sometimes equated with the Pope himself). While the hypothetical nature of the argument should not be forgotten, Galileo's book 'revels in the simplicity of Copernican thought and, above all, it teaches that the movement of the earth makes sense in philosophy, that is, in physics ... The Dialogo, more than any other work, made the heliocentric system a commonplace' (PMM). The Italian first edition (Florence: 1632) was banned by the Pope and withdrawn from circulation shortly after publication, leading to the author's trial and imprisonment a year later; it was followed by the first Latin edition, published in Strasbourg in 1635, which was translated by the history professor and mathematics enthusiast Matthias Bernegger at Galileo's request. Two important appendices by Kepler and Foscarini concerning the debate over the compatability of the theory of the earth's movement with Scripture were also added to Galileo's text by Bernegger. Carli and Favaro 180; Cinti 109; Riccardi I, 1, 512, no. 10, 5.
4° (228 x 173mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by C. Audran. Engraved additional title, title printed in red and black with engraved publisher's device. Woodcut illustrations and diagrams. With errata leaf 3D4. (Variable spotting and browning, portrait and additional title skilfully repaired and reinserted, some leaves with repaired marginal tears and worming sometimes affecting catchwords.) 17th-century English speckled calf, covers with blind-ruled borders, spine gilt in compartments with morocco lettering-piece, red edges (lightly chipped and scuffed, cracking on joints, rejointed, neat repairs to corners). Provenance: Sir William Dawes, Bt (1671-1724, chaplain in ordinary to King William III and Queen Anne, and Archbishop of York, bookplate on verso of title dated 1704).
Second Latin edition of the Dialogo, the summation of Galileo's astronomical work, and his celebrated advancement of the Copernican system in the form of an irrefutable hypothesis. The inconclusive debate on the subject between three participants which Pope Urban VIII had expected was hardly evident in the sure reasoning of Salviati, the pointed questioning of Sagredo, and the feeble responses of Simplicio (a figure sometimes equated with the Pope himself). While the hypothetical nature of the argument should not be forgotten, Galileo's book 'revels in the simplicity of Copernican thought and, above all, it teaches that the movement of the earth makes sense in philosophy, that is, in physics ... The Dialogo, more than any other work, made the heliocentric system a commonplace' (PMM). The Italian first edition (Florence: 1632) was banned by the Pope and withdrawn from circulation shortly after publication, leading to the author's trial and imprisonment a year later; it was followed by the first Latin edition, published in Strasbourg in 1635, which was translated by the history professor and mathematics enthusiast Matthias Bernegger at Galileo's request. Two important appendices by Kepler and Foscarini concerning the debate over the compatability of the theory of the earth's movement with Scripture were also added to Galileo's text by Bernegger. Carli and Favaro 180; Cinti 109; Riccardi I, 1, 512, no. 10, 5.
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