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LA GALLA, Giulio Cesare (1576-1624). De phœnomenis in orbe lunæ novi telescopii usu a D. Gallileo Gallileo nunc iterum suscitatis, physica disputatio … Necnon de luce et lumine altera disputatio. Venice: Thomas Baleo, 1612.
2 parts, 4° (200 x 152mm). Woodcut title device, headpiece and decorative initials. (Lacks folding engraved table, title tipped onto front free endpaper, lower margins close cut, catch-letter on A3r partly cropped away, marginal waterstains, G2r with printing fault slightly affecting two lines.) Modern half vellum and blue marbled boards. Provenance: frequent marginal annotations and scoring in a contemporary hand (cropped by the binder).
FIRST EDITION OF A RARE TITLE in the Galilean controversy. La Galla was professor of philosophy at the Collegio Romano when Galileo went to Rome in 1611 to present his telescope and the discoveries made with it. He was given a number of opportunities to try the new eyeglass; its technical capabilities were not questioned in his tract, though scoffed at by other critics. However, as an Aristotelian La Galla refused to accept the irregularity of the moon’s surface, and he therefore questioned how the observations in Galileo’s Sidereus nuncius had been interpreted. He made useful reference to Galileo's own annotations to the book, only published in volume III of the Opere complete (1842-56). The second part recounts a discussion about the nature of light that took place in Rome with Galileo, Cesi, G. De Misiana and G. Clementi. SBN lists only eight Italian libraries with holdings. RBH records its appearance in a bookseller's catalogue of 1977 but no auction sale since 1932. BL/STC 17th-century Italian Books I, p.463; Carli and Favaro 52; Cinti 38; Riccardi I(ii) 1; Vinciana Aut. Ital. del '600 1576: 'rarissimo e importantissimo opuscolo'.
2 parts, 4° (200 x 152mm). Woodcut title device, headpiece and decorative initials. (Lacks folding engraved table, title tipped onto front free endpaper, lower margins close cut, catch-letter on A3r partly cropped away, marginal waterstains, G2r with printing fault slightly affecting two lines.) Modern half vellum and blue marbled boards. Provenance: frequent marginal annotations and scoring in a contemporary hand (cropped by the binder).
FIRST EDITION OF A RARE TITLE in the Galilean controversy. La Galla was professor of philosophy at the Collegio Romano when Galileo went to Rome in 1611 to present his telescope and the discoveries made with it. He was given a number of opportunities to try the new eyeglass; its technical capabilities were not questioned in his tract, though scoffed at by other critics. However, as an Aristotelian La Galla refused to accept the irregularity of the moon’s surface, and he therefore questioned how the observations in Galileo’s Sidereus nuncius had been interpreted. He made useful reference to Galileo's own annotations to the book, only published in volume III of the Opere complete (1842-56). The second part recounts a discussion about the nature of light that took place in Rome with Galileo, Cesi, G. De Misiana and G. Clementi. SBN lists only eight Italian libraries with holdings. RBH records its appearance in a bookseller's catalogue of 1977 but no auction sale since 1932. BL/STC 17th-century Italian Books I, p.463; Carli and Favaro 52; Cinti 38; Riccardi I(ii) 1; Vinciana Aut. Ital. del '600 1576: 'rarissimo e importantissimo opuscolo'.
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