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TELESIO, Bernardino (1509-1588). De his, quae in aëre siunt; & de terraemotibus, liber unicus. Naples: Giuseppe Cacchi, 1570.
4° (217 x 165mm). Large woodcut device on title, printer’s device on verso of final leaf, historiated and ornamental initials. (A few very small wormholes in inner gutter closed.) Modern marbled wrappers.
SCARCE FIRST EDITION of Telesio’s treatise on atmosphere and earthquakes. Telesio, an Italian philosopher and natural scientist, inaugurated the Renaissance empiricist reaction against the practice of reasoning without reference to concrete data. Adams T-290; Manzi, Giuseppe Cacchi, p.42 no.24; Riccardi I (2), 512.
4° (217 x 165mm). Large woodcut device on title, printer’s device on verso of final leaf, historiated and ornamental initials. (A few very small wormholes in inner gutter closed.) Modern marbled wrappers.
SCARCE FIRST EDITION of Telesio’s treatise on atmosphere and earthquakes. Telesio, an Italian philosopher and natural scientist, inaugurated the Renaissance empiricist reaction against the practice of reasoning without reference to concrete data. Adams T-290; Manzi, Giuseppe Cacchi, p.42 no.24; Riccardi I (2), 512.
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