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RICCIOLI, Giovanni Battista (1598-1671). Argomento fisicomattematico … contro il diurno della terra. Bologna: Emilio Maria, e fratelli de’ Manolesi, 1668.
4° (225 x160mm). Woodcut diagrams, ornamental initials. (Slight soiling and corner creasing to title and preliminary leaves.) Contemporary limp pasteboard, spine with vellum sewing guards, uncut (spine a little worn at foot).
FIRST EDITION, UNCUT COPY. Riccioli’s Almagestum novum (1651), an encyclopedic work of over 1500 folio pages, became a standard reference for astronomers all over Europe. Book 9 dealt with 126 arguments concerning the earth’s motion, 49 for and 77 against. The present tract was a ‘riposte’ to the mathematician Stefano degli Angeli who had attacked one of the arguments against rotation. Edited by Michele Manfredi, one of Riccioli’s scholars, it reaffirmed his belief in a modified Tychonic system which was shared by his friends Borelli and Zerilli. Riccioli accepted the motion of Mercury, Venus and Mars around the sun, but maintained that Jupiter and Saturn move around the stationary earth. Honeyman 2644; Riccardi I(ii) 373.8: ‘raro’.
4° (225 x160mm). Woodcut diagrams, ornamental initials. (Slight soiling and corner creasing to title and preliminary leaves.) Contemporary limp pasteboard, spine with vellum sewing guards, uncut (spine a little worn at foot).
FIRST EDITION, UNCUT COPY. Riccioli’s Almagestum novum (1651), an encyclopedic work of over 1500 folio pages, became a standard reference for astronomers all over Europe. Book 9 dealt with 126 arguments concerning the earth’s motion, 49 for and 77 against. The present tract was a ‘riposte’ to the mathematician Stefano degli Angeli who had attacked one of the arguments against rotation. Edited by Michele Manfredi, one of Riccioli’s scholars, it reaffirmed his belief in a modified Tychonic system which was shared by his friends Borelli and Zerilli. Riccioli accepted the motion of Mercury, Venus and Mars around the sun, but maintained that Jupiter and Saturn move around the stationary earth. Honeyman 2644; Riccardi I(ii) 373.8: ‘raro’.
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