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GRANDAMI, Jacques (1588-1672). Nova demonstratio immobilitatis terrae petita ex virtute magnetica. La Flèche: George Griveau, 1645.
Small 4° (248 x 200mm). Additional engraved title, 7 plates, including one folding and one double-page, and 24 illustrations, mostly by F. Rousseuille, woodcut initials and headpiece. (Short clean tear in margin of engraved title, gathering F browned, light spotting and browning.) Old-style modern pasteboard (lightly soiled), uncut.
FIRST EDITION of this attack on the Copernican theory. Grandami uses his own theories about terrestrial magnetism in an attempt to prove the immobility of the earth. Grandami's theories were probably inspired by Galileo's Dialogo dei massimi sisterni published in 1632. Grandami taught literature, natural philosophy and theology at various Jesuit colleges in France. Honeyman IV, 1535; Wheeler Gift 122 (lists 9 plates but Honeyman catalogue suggests that is an error).
Small 4° (248 x 200mm). Additional engraved title, 7 plates, including one folding and one double-page, and 24 illustrations, mostly by F. Rousseuille, woodcut initials and headpiece. (Short clean tear in margin of engraved title, gathering F browned, light spotting and browning.) Old-style modern pasteboard (lightly soiled), uncut.
FIRST EDITION of this attack on the Copernican theory. Grandami uses his own theories about terrestrial magnetism in an attempt to prove the immobility of the earth. Grandami's theories were probably inspired by Galileo's Dialogo dei massimi sisterni published in 1632. Grandami taught literature, natural philosophy and theology at various Jesuit colleges in France. Honeyman IV, 1535; Wheeler Gift 122 (lists 9 plates but Honeyman catalogue suggests that is an error).
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