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STELLUTI, Giovanni Battista (d.1646). Scandaglio sopra la libra astronomica et filosofica di Lotario Sarsi nella controversia delle comete e particolarmente delle tre ultimamente vedute l'anno 1618. Terni: Tomasso Guerrieri, 1622. 4°. Woodcut device on title (errata leaf supplied, probably in facsimile). Modern vellum.
FIRST EDITION of this defence of Galileo against Orazio Grassi. The controversy between Grassi and Galileo,begun by their opinions on the 1618 comet, spawned numerous pamphlets on both sides of the argument. This, by the brother of the publisher of the Saggiatore, Galileo's own response to Grassi, was published by the prototypographer of Terni. Carli and Favaro 89; Riccardi II,477.
FIRST EDITION of this defence of Galileo against Orazio Grassi. The controversy between Grassi and Galileo,begun by their opinions on the 1618 comet, spawned numerous pamphlets on both sides of the argument. This, by the brother of the publisher of the Saggiatore, Galileo's own response to Grassi, was published by the prototypographer of Terni. Carli and Favaro 89; Riccardi II,477.
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