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RICCIOLI, Giovanni Battista (1598-1671). Apologia [...] pro argumento physicomathematico contra systema Copernicanum. Venice: Salerni & Cagnolini, 1669.
4° (214 x 157mm). Woodcut device on title, woodcut diagrams throughout, head- and tailpiece, two woodcut initials. (Faint horizontal crease throughout, minor holes to a few margins, dampstaining to penultimate leaf.) Contemporary vellum, manuscript title and paper library label to spine. Provenance: Indistinct inscription to title -- Carolus Fanti (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. ‘Riccioli [was] one of the most ardent opponents of the Copernican system, which he tried to refute in every way. He nonetheless recognized the simplicity and the imaginative force of the Copernican theory, and acknowledged it as the best “mathematical hypothesis” – while striving to divorce it from any effective notion of truth’ (DSB XI, p.411). Riccardi I(ii) 374.9: ‘raro’.
4° (214 x 157mm). Woodcut device on title, woodcut diagrams throughout, head- and tailpiece, two woodcut initials. (Faint horizontal crease throughout, minor holes to a few margins, dampstaining to penultimate leaf.) Contemporary vellum, manuscript title and paper library label to spine. Provenance: Indistinct inscription to title -- Carolus Fanti (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. ‘Riccioli [was] one of the most ardent opponents of the Copernican system, which he tried to refute in every way. He nonetheless recognized the simplicity and the imaginative force of the Copernican theory, and acknowledged it as the best “mathematical hypothesis” – while striving to divorce it from any effective notion of truth’ (DSB XI, p.411). Riccardi I(ii) 374.9: ‘raro’.
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