CABEO, Niccolo (1586-1650). Philosophia magnetica, Ferrara: Franciscus Succhi, 1629, 2° (300 x 212mm.), FIRST EDITION, engraved title, engraved and woodcut illustrations (lower part of title and lower margin of preliminaries slightly dampstained, lower margin of title with small blank area torn away, occasional browning and spotting, still good and clean), 18th-century marbled sheep, gilt arms to covers, gilt decorated spine with contrasting lettering-piece (slight damage to front and rear cover, library paper label to tail of spine), red edges, 19th-century bookplate of Thomas Seyssel d'Aix. [Ferguson I, 136; Riccardi I, 205; Wheeler 97 (with Cologne title)].

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CABEO, Niccolo (1586-1650). Philosophia magnetica, Ferrara: Franciscus Succhi, 1629, 2° (300 x 212mm.), FIRST EDITION, engraved title, engraved and woodcut illustrations (lower part of title and lower margin of preliminaries slightly dampstained, lower margin of title with small blank area torn away, occasional browning and spotting, still good and clean), 18th-century marbled sheep, gilt arms to covers, gilt decorated spine with contrasting lettering-piece (slight damage to front and rear cover, library paper label to tail of spine), red edges, 19th-century bookplate of Thomas Seyssel d'Aix. [Ferguson I, 136; Riccardi I, 205; Wheeler 97 (with Cologne title)].

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Wheeler: "On p. 194 of this famous work of the great Italian Jesuit will be found the first recognition of electrical repulsion. Gilbert's discoveries and theories are freely discussed, the latter often adversely. Sympathetic telegraphy disproved, p. 301; magnetic field mapped out by iron filings; also diagrams of the magnetic (Lover's) telegraph. Cabeo (Cabeus) opposed the views of Copernicus on astronomy as well as those of Gilbert on terrestrial magnetism."

Some copies contain a printed title (not present here) with a Cologne imprint, in addition to the engraved title with the Ferrara imprint.

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