.jpg?w=1)
Details
GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Discorso al serenissimo don Cosimo II gran duca di Toscana. Intorno alle cose, che stanno in sù l'acqua, ò che in quella si muovono. Seconda editione. Florence: Cosimo Giunti, 1612.
4º (212 x 142mm). (Title fractionally soiled at margin, A3-4 lightly stained, a little spotting.) [?]19th-century vellum, manuscript title on spine.
Second edition. This early work disproved the Aristotelian view that the buoyancy of a solid body on water was a function of shape, and demonstrated the correctness of Archimedes’ principal that flotation depends on the relative densities of the floating body and the fluid supporting it. Galileo's observations on sunspots, the 'triple' appearance of Saturn and the phases of Venus are also included in the volume. The second edition, published in the same year and by the same publisher as the first, was greatly augmented. The use of two typefaces, with the original text in italic and all the additions in roman, clarifies which parts are new. Brunet II, 1461; Camerini, Giunti … di Firenze I, 431; Carli and Favaro 48; Cinti 35; Gamba p.149; Honeyman 1401; Riccardi I, 509.
4º (212 x 142mm). (Title fractionally soiled at margin, A3-4 lightly stained, a little spotting.) [?]19th-century vellum, manuscript title on spine.
Second edition. This early work disproved the Aristotelian view that the buoyancy of a solid body on water was a function of shape, and demonstrated the correctness of Archimedes’ principal that flotation depends on the relative densities of the floating body and the fluid supporting it. Galileo's observations on sunspots, the 'triple' appearance of Saturn and the phases of Venus are also included in the volume. The second edition, published in the same year and by the same publisher as the first, was greatly augmented. The use of two typefaces, with the original text in italic and all the additions in roman, clarifies which parts are new. Brunet II, 1461; Camerini, Giunti … di Firenze I, 431; Carli and Favaro 48; Cinti 35; Gamba p.149; Honeyman 1401; Riccardi I, 509.
Special notice
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium.
Brought to you by
Robert Tyrwhitt