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LICETI, Fortunio (1577-1657). De luminis natura et efficientia libri tres. Udine: Nicola Schiratti, 1640.
4º (194 x 142mm). Title with device of Mercury pursuing Pan, other woodcut ornaments. 18th-century vellum with manuscript title on spine, marbled edges (one board edge a little worn). Provenance: early shelf mark and label – ‘CVPF’ (stamp on title).
FIRST EDITION of this general work on light and illumination based on Liceti’s strongly Aristotelian convictions. This prolific author, said by Cavalieri to be capable of writing a book a week, lectured in philosophy at the University of Bologna from 1637 to 1645. Between 1640 and 1642 he engaged in friendly astronomical debate with Galileo, affirming that the moon released light absorbed by the sun, contrary to the Galiean view that the moon’s illumination is caused by sunlight reflected from earth. BL/STC 17th-century Italian Books I, p.485; Riccardi I(ii) 39.4.
4º (194 x 142mm). Title with device of Mercury pursuing Pan, other woodcut ornaments. 18th-century vellum with manuscript title on spine, marbled edges (one board edge a little worn). Provenance: early shelf mark and label – ‘CVPF’ (stamp on title).
FIRST EDITION of this general work on light and illumination based on Liceti’s strongly Aristotelian convictions. This prolific author, said by Cavalieri to be capable of writing a book a week, lectured in philosophy at the University of Bologna from 1637 to 1645. Between 1640 and 1642 he engaged in friendly astronomical debate with Galileo, affirming that the moon released light absorbed by the sun, contrary to the Galiean view that the moon’s illumination is caused by sunlight reflected from earth. BL/STC 17th-century Italian Books I, p.485; Riccardi I(ii) 39.4.
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