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CASTELLI, Benedetto (1577-1643). Delle misura dell'acque correnti. Bolonga: H. H. del Dozza, 1660-59.
2 parts in one volume, 4° (217 x 155mm). Engraved frontispiece, woodcut diagrams and initials. (Frontispiece with small repair on verso, some light browning and spotting.) 18th-century vellum, marbled edges, 19th-century manuscript title on spine and date label (soiled, corners a little bumped). Provenance: Royal Meteorological Society, Symons Bequest 1900 (bookplate).
‘Third’ [but fourth] edition of Castelli’s work on the mensuration of running water, regarded by Riccardi as ‘più completa e più pregiata’ than those earlier; the first edition had appeared in 1628. A member of the Benedictine order, and the lifelong friend and supporter of his teacher Galileo, Castelli is considered the first mathematician to apply geometry to the solution of problems connected with water, introducing an important alternative approach to hydraulics. BL STC 17th-century Italian I, p.202; Brunet I, 1625; Honeyman 620; Riccardi I, 290.
2 parts in one volume, 4° (217 x 155mm). Engraved frontispiece, woodcut diagrams and initials. (Frontispiece with small repair on verso, some light browning and spotting.) 18th-century vellum, marbled edges, 19th-century manuscript title on spine and date label (soiled, corners a little bumped). Provenance: Royal Meteorological Society, Symons Bequest 1900 (bookplate).
‘Third’ [but fourth] edition of Castelli’s work on the mensuration of running water, regarded by Riccardi as ‘più completa e più pregiata’ than those earlier; the first edition had appeared in 1628. A member of the Benedictine order, and the lifelong friend and supporter of his teacher Galileo, Castelli is considered the first mathematician to apply geometry to the solution of problems connected with water, introducing an important alternative approach to hydraulics. BL STC 17th-century Italian I, p.202; Brunet I, 1625; Honeyman 620; Riccardi I, 290.
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