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Physics & Optics
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“The ‘Opening Gun’ In the Campaign Against Galileo's Dialogo”
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[Galileiana] BERIGARD, Claudio [Claude Guillermet]. Dubitationes in dialogum Galilaei Galilaei Lyncei in Gymnasio Pisano mathematici supraordinarij. Florence, Petri Nesti, 1632.
Rare first and only edition of this understudied treatise, the first critique of Galileo’s Dialogo, by a staunch proponent of fixed-earth Aristotelianism.
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GALILEI, Galileo / [MERSENNE, Marin, tr.]. Les Mechaniqves de Galile’e… avec plvsievrs additions rares, & nouuelles, utiles aux Architectes, Ingenieurs, Fonteniers, Philosophes, & Artisans. Paris, Henry Guenon, 1634.
First edition of the earliest printed account of Galileo's work on the physics of moving bodies,is regarded as important by Stillman Drake for "bridging the gap between statics and dynamics" (Galileo on Motion and Mechanics).
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The Invention of the Air Pump and the Electric Generator
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GUERICKE, Otto von. Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio Prim R. P. Gaspare Schotto.... Amsterdam, J. Janssonium a Waesberge, 1672.
First edition, and a fine copy, of one of the great classics of science.
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Galileo's Precursor to the Discorsi
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[GALILEI, Galileo]/DANESI, Luca. Della Scienza Mecanica e delle Vtilita, Che si traggono da gl Istromenti di quella Opera Cavata da manoscritti. Ravenna, Stamp. Camerali, 1649.
Rare first printed edition in the original Italian of Galileo's early treatise on mechanics, a precursor to the research that he would present in his Discorsi. .
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