Catalogue 32
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Scientific Instruments
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Galileo, Guldin and Mersenne Square Off at the Collegio Romano
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[[GALILEIANA] ] CASATI, Paolo. Terra machinis mota dissertationes geometricae, mechanicae, physicae, hydrostaticae ... . Rome, Ignazio de Lazaro, 1658.
Scarce augmented edition of this work on the theory of machines and the nature of gravity by the young Jesuit Paolo Casati.
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An Unusually Fine Example Of An
Early American Backstaff
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HAM, James. Backstaff, fruitwood frame with two boxwood arcs. 1759.
Rare, early American-made back-staff, one of the principle
instruments of navigation throughout the 17th and 18th centuries.
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“[T]he first illustrations prepared with a microscope
That were set forth in a printed book.” (Singer).
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[GALILEIANA] STELLUTI, Francesco/ PERSIUS. Persio tradotto in verso sciolto e dichiarato da Francesco Stelluti, Accademia Linceo da Fabbriano. Rome, Giacomo Mascardi, 1630.
First edition of this illustrated Italian translation of the Roman poet Persius (CE 34-62) by Galileo’s correspondent, friend, and fellow member of the Accademia Linceo, containing “the first illustrations prepared with a microscope that were set forth in a printed book” (Singer p. 148), including the anatomical ‘bee’ engraving made possible with Galileo’s microscope.
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[HUYGENS] WEIGEL, Erhard / EBELL, Heinrich Christoph. Q.D.B.V. Pendulum de Tetracty deductum. Jena, Johann Werther, 1674.
Rare first and sole edition of this university thesis on the pendulum published just a year after Huygens' Horologium Oscillatorium, and mentioned by the author.
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[SAVARY, Thomas?]. Podrobnoe Opissanie Parovoi Mashiny, ustroennoi v Velikobritanii izobtashatalemsh oniya T. Saveri... Saint Petersburg, 1817.
An early Russian technical book describing an atmospheric steam engine for pumping water.
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