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GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Dialogo ... Dove ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernico. 'Florence' [Naples]: 1710. Large 8° (249 x 175mm). Title in red and black, engraved title-page vignette, woodcut initials, diagrams in text; title to Lettera alla Granduchessa with woodcut device. (Occasional light spotting, marginal repair to title, small marginal hole or tear in 3 leaves.) Contemporary vellum, spine lettered gilt.
SECOND EDITION IN ITALIAN of Galileo's Dialogue. The first edition was placed on the Index of Forbidden Books immediately after publication in 1632. No subsequent Italian edition followed until this one of 1710, published clandestinely in Naples. It contains two other works attempting to refute the perceived polarity between Copernicus's theory and the Bible: Foscarini's Letter (originally published 1615) and Galileo's Lettera alla Granduchessa di Toscana (composed in 1615, first published 1636). 'Galileo argued that neither the Bible nor nature could speak falsely and that the investigation of nature was the province of the scientist, while the reconciliation of scientific facts with the language of the' (DSB V 242). A LARGE, FRESH COPY. Carli-Favaro 99 (413); Cinti 319 (168); De Caro 24; Riccardi I 512.
SECOND EDITION IN ITALIAN of Galileo's Dialogue. The first edition was placed on the Index of Forbidden Books immediately after publication in 1632. No subsequent Italian edition followed until this one of 1710, published clandestinely in Naples. It contains two other works attempting to refute the perceived polarity between Copernicus's theory and the Bible: Foscarini's Letter (originally published 1615) and Galileo's Lettera alla Granduchessa di Toscana (composed in 1615, first published 1636). 'Galileo argued that neither the Bible nor nature could speak falsely and that the investigation of nature was the province of the scientist, while the reconciliation of scientific facts with the language of the' (DSB V 242). A LARGE, FRESH COPY. Carli-Favaro 99 (413); Cinti 319 (168); De Caro 24; Riccardi I 512.
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