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DELLA PORTA, Giovan Battista (c.1538-1615). I tre libri de' spiritali … cioe d'inalzar acque per forza dell'aria. Naples: Gio. Iacomo Carlino, 1606.
4° (198 x 146mm). Woodcut title device, illustrations and diagrams. (Title slightly wormed at bottom margin, marginal soiling and staining, F1-2 torn at bottom margin.) Contemporary cartone alla rustica (front cover stained, rear cover discoloured, endpapers browned).
The Elementorum curvilineorum libri duo of 1601 here appears in the Italian translation of Juan Escrivano, with the addition of a third book. In his address to the author, Escrivano explains that the translation is for mechanics ‘che quasi sono tutti idioti’. It is notable for the inclusion of a machine for raising a column of water by steam pressure (p.75), and for the thermoscope on the next page. Della Porta also looked back critically on experiments by Hero of Alexandria, using diagrams taken from early manuscripts. RARE. SBN locates only three copies. BL/STC 17th-century Italian Books II, p.701; Riccardi I(ii) 310; Wolf, History of Science I, p.544.
4° (198 x 146mm). Woodcut title device, illustrations and diagrams. (Title slightly wormed at bottom margin, marginal soiling and staining, F1-2 torn at bottom margin.) Contemporary cartone alla rustica (front cover stained, rear cover discoloured, endpapers browned).
The Elementorum curvilineorum libri duo of 1601 here appears in the Italian translation of Juan Escrivano, with the addition of a third book. In his address to the author, Escrivano explains that the translation is for mechanics ‘che quasi sono tutti idioti’. It is notable for the inclusion of a machine for raising a column of water by steam pressure (p.75), and for the thermoscope on the next page. Della Porta also looked back critically on experiments by Hero of Alexandria, using diagrams taken from early manuscripts. RARE. SBN locates only three copies. BL/STC 17th-century Italian Books II, p.701; Riccardi I(ii) 310; Wolf, History of Science I, p.544.
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