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MONFORTE, Antonio de (1644-1717). De syderum intervallis et magnitudinibus opusculum. Cui accessit eiusdem tractatus De problematum determinatione. Naples: Nicola Abri, 1699.
2 parts, 4º (223 x 159mm). Title to each part with Abri’s device, woodcut diagrams and ornaments. (Title and a2 waterstained at head, a little spotting.) Contemporary calf, gilt spine compartments, red sprinkled edges (lightly rubbed, some scuff marks, dent to edge of rear cover, lacks spine label). Provenance: shelf mark on front blank.
FIRST EDITION. The De syderum intervallis of Monforte derives from a lecture given in 1698 at the opening of the Palatine Academy in Naples, expressing strong support for the investigative tradition of Galileo which he felt was being crushed. Besides proposing a more satisfactory method for calculating the earth’s radius, it defined a method for measuring the lunar parallax consistent with Hipparchus, and resolved the issue of the distance of the sun from the earth by the measurement of the parallax of Mars. The lecture is here translated into Latin, given a critical commentary, and published with a second mathematical tract which handled some of the most difficult questions in algebraic analysis (see Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 75). MOST RARE. SBN locates copies only at the Bib. nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples, and Bib. dell'Opera pia collegio Nazareno, Rome. Riccardi I(ii) 167.2.
2 parts, 4º (223 x 159mm). Title to each part with Abri’s device, woodcut diagrams and ornaments. (Title and a2 waterstained at head, a little spotting.) Contemporary calf, gilt spine compartments, red sprinkled edges (lightly rubbed, some scuff marks, dent to edge of rear cover, lacks spine label). Provenance: shelf mark on front blank.
FIRST EDITION. The De syderum intervallis of Monforte derives from a lecture given in 1698 at the opening of the Palatine Academy in Naples, expressing strong support for the investigative tradition of Galileo which he felt was being crushed. Besides proposing a more satisfactory method for calculating the earth’s radius, it defined a method for measuring the lunar parallax consistent with Hipparchus, and resolved the issue of the distance of the sun from the earth by the measurement of the parallax of Mars. The lecture is here translated into Latin, given a critical commentary, and published with a second mathematical tract which handled some of the most difficult questions in algebraic analysis (see Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 75). MOST RARE. SBN locates copies only at the Bib. nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Naples, and Bib. dell'Opera pia collegio Nazareno, Rome. Riccardi I(ii) 167.2.
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