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TORRICELLI, Evangelista (1608-1647). Lezioni accademiche … Lettore delle mattematiche nello studio di Firenze e Accademico della Crusca. Edited by Tommaso Bonaventuri (d. 1731). Florence: S.A.R. for Jacopo Guiducci and Santi Franchi, 1715.
4° (253 x 177mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait after Pietro Anichini, title with engraved device of the Accademia della Crusca, three woodcuts in text, woodcut ornaments. Imprimatur leaf at end. (b1 with short tear at inner margin, c7 with corner tear.) Contemporary vellum with manuscript title, yapp edges, red page edges. Provenance: Fratelli Salimbeni (Pegasus bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of these twelve posthumously published lectures by Galileo’s successor as professor of mathematics at Florence. There is one lecture of thanks on Torricelli’s admission to the Accademia della Crusca; three on the force of impact, in which he was reporting ideas expressed by Gaileo in their private conversations; two on lightness; one advancing the modern theory that winds are produced by differences of air temperature; one in praise of mathematics; two on military architecture; and one of encomium for the ‘golden century,’ the fabled epoch of human perfection. Bonaventuri contributed an essay on Torricelli and his work, and also reprinted his letters on the acclaimed barometric experiment, the subject of the woodcut illustrations. Carli and Favaro 428; Cinti 169; Dibner, Heralds 149; DSB XIII, pp.437-38; Honeyman 2993; Norman 2088; Riccardi I(ii) 544: 'raro'; Sparrow, Milestones of Science 190.
4° (253 x 177mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait after Pietro Anichini, title with engraved device of the Accademia della Crusca, three woodcuts in text, woodcut ornaments. Imprimatur leaf at end. (b1 with short tear at inner margin, c7 with corner tear.) Contemporary vellum with manuscript title, yapp edges, red page edges. Provenance: Fratelli Salimbeni (Pegasus bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of these twelve posthumously published lectures by Galileo’s successor as professor of mathematics at Florence. There is one lecture of thanks on Torricelli’s admission to the Accademia della Crusca; three on the force of impact, in which he was reporting ideas expressed by Gaileo in their private conversations; two on lightness; one advancing the modern theory that winds are produced by differences of air temperature; one in praise of mathematics; two on military architecture; and one of encomium for the ‘golden century,’ the fabled epoch of human perfection. Bonaventuri contributed an essay on Torricelli and his work, and also reprinted his letters on the acclaimed barometric experiment, the subject of the woodcut illustrations. Carli and Favaro 428; Cinti 169; Dibner, Heralds 149; DSB XIII, pp.437-38; Honeyman 2993; Norman 2088; Riccardi I(ii) 544: 'raro'; Sparrow, Milestones of Science 190.
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