MONTE, Guidobaldo del (1545-1607). In duos Archimedis, Pesaro: Hieronymus Concordiam, 1588, 2° (298 x 200mm.), FIRST EDITION, vignette to title, numerous illustrations in text (partly erased library stamps to title and few leaves of text, slip of text pasted down to B1, lower outer corner of O1 torn away, hole to blank margin of R2), 18th-century speckled calf (worn), sprinkled edges.

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MONTE, Guidobaldo del (1545-1607). In duos Archimedis, Pesaro: Hieronymus Concordiam, 1588, 2° (298 x 200mm.), FIRST EDITION, vignette to title, numerous illustrations in text (partly erased library stamps to title and few leaves of text, slip of text pasted down to B1, lower outer corner of O1 torn away, hole to blank margin of R2), 18th-century speckled calf (worn), sprinkled edges.

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Guidobaldo's commentary on Archimedes's work on plane equilibrium, containing his own important and influential treatise on the determination of centres of gravity. Guidolbaldo's work greatly influenced Galileo.

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