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MARCHETTI, Alessandro (1633-1714). De resistentia solidorum. Florence: S.M.D. for Vincenzo Vangelisti and Piero Matini, 1669.
4° (230 x 169mm). Title with engraved arms of the dedicatee, Cardinal Leopold de’ Medici. Woodcut diagrams. Extra illustrated with engraved oval portrait of Cardinal Leopold before letters, with two-line legend in pen-and-ink. (Quires B and H heavily browned, O1 with corner torn away, some spotting towards end.) Original vellum gilt for presentation, covers with central arabesque, double fillet frame with cornerpieces, flat spine divided by double fillets, with title in manuscript and fleuron in lower panels, gilt and gauffeured edges (some chipping and abrasion to gilt tooling, corners rubbed, light creasing at edges); modern clamshell cloth case. Provenance: presentation copy, title inscribed ‘All. Ill[ustrissi]mo. e R[e]v[erendissi]mo. Sig. Monsig. C. Felice Marchetti/L’Autore’ – title and front free endpaper with heraldic stamp – Dr Clemente Querce (signature on front free endpaper) – Verne L. Roberts, Bibliotheca Mechanica (deaccession label; pp. 213-14 in his catalogue).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY ‘of this pioneering study in the theory of elasticity. It deals with the strength of materials and the problems of solids of equal resistance, a study initiated by Galileo who is extensively praised in the preface along with Marchetti’s teacher, Borelli’ (Bib. Mechanica). Marchetti completed the enormous task of translating the De rerum natura of Lucretius between 1664 and 1668, but disappointment over its cold reception and the opposition of the Tuscan authorities to its publication led him to an exploration of mechanics in both the Exercitationes mechanicae (Pisa, 1669) and this work, which he originally intended to call ‘Galileus Ampliatus’. Carli and Favaro 325; Cinti 148; Honeyman 2143 (presentation copy to Ferdinando Barbi); Riccardi I(ii) 106; Wolf I, pp.473-74.
4° (230 x 169mm). Title with engraved arms of the dedicatee, Cardinal Leopold de’ Medici. Woodcut diagrams. Extra illustrated with engraved oval portrait of Cardinal Leopold before letters, with two-line legend in pen-and-ink. (Quires B and H heavily browned, O1 with corner torn away, some spotting towards end.) Original vellum gilt for presentation, covers with central arabesque, double fillet frame with cornerpieces, flat spine divided by double fillets, with title in manuscript and fleuron in lower panels, gilt and gauffeured edges (some chipping and abrasion to gilt tooling, corners rubbed, light creasing at edges); modern clamshell cloth case. Provenance: presentation copy, title inscribed ‘All. Ill[ustrissi]mo. e R[e]v[erendissi]mo. Sig. Monsig. C. Felice Marchetti/L’Autore’ – title and front free endpaper with heraldic stamp – Dr Clemente Querce (signature on front free endpaper) – Verne L. Roberts, Bibliotheca Mechanica (deaccession label; pp. 213-14 in his catalogue).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY ‘of this pioneering study in the theory of elasticity. It deals with the strength of materials and the problems of solids of equal resistance, a study initiated by Galileo who is extensively praised in the preface along with Marchetti’s teacher, Borelli’ (Bib. Mechanica). Marchetti completed the enormous task of translating the De rerum natura of Lucretius between 1664 and 1668, but disappointment over its cold reception and the opposition of the Tuscan authorities to its publication led him to an exploration of mechanics in both the Exercitationes mechanicae (Pisa, 1669) and this work, which he originally intended to call ‘Galileus Ampliatus’. Carli and Favaro 325; Cinti 148; Honeyman 2143 (presentation copy to Ferdinando Barbi); Riccardi I(ii) 106; Wolf I, pp.473-74.
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