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SIZZI, Francesco. Dianoia [in Greek] astronomica, optica, physica. Venice: Pietro Maria Bertano, 1611.
Small 4° (198 x 149mm). Printer’s device on title, one woodcut diagram, three large woodcut initials. (A few light spots.) Modern vellum. Provenance: removed stamp (on [A2r]).
FIRST EDITION of this attempted refutation of Galileo’s first telescopic discoveries. When Galileo announced his discovery of Jupiter's four big moons, Sizzi argued that this was incompatible with Holy Scripture. Cinti 32; Riccardi, I(ii) 461-2.
Small 4° (198 x 149mm). Printer’s device on title, one woodcut diagram, three large woodcut initials. (A few light spots.) Modern vellum. Provenance: removed stamp (on [A2r]).
FIRST EDITION of this attempted refutation of Galileo’s first telescopic discoveries. When Galileo announced his discovery of Jupiter's four big moons, Sizzi argued that this was incompatible with Holy Scripture. Cinti 32; Riccardi, I(ii) 461-2.
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