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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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"Copernicus First Scientific Work'
- Gingerich
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COPERNICUS, Nicolaus. De Lateribus et angulis Triangulorum, tum planorum rectilineorum tum Sphaericorum, libellus eruditissimus & utilissimus, cum ad plerasque Ptolemaei demonstrationes intelligendas, tam vero ad alia multa... Wittenberg, Johannes Lufft, 1542.
Rare first edition of Copernicus' first scientific work, containing the first appearance of any part of the text of De Revolutionibus as well as Rheticus first published trigonometric tables.
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With a New Definition of 'Flower'
& Over 1300 Woodcuts
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DODOENS, Rembert. Stirpium Historiae Pemptades Sex Sive Libri XXX. Antwerp, Plantin, 1583.
First edition of Dodoens' summation of his botany, the most comprehensive botanical work, incorporating material from a number of his earlier books, including the Cruyderboeck.
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GALILEI, Galileo . Opere ... Bologna, HH. del Dozza, 1655-56.
First collected edition of Galileo’s works, appearing only a year after his death and of great interest for his 17th-century reception: this was the edition in which Newton and later eminent scientists read their Galileo.
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With a Map of the Moon
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GILBERT, William. De mundo nostro Sublunari Philosophia Nova. Opus posthumum. Amsterdam, Ludovico Elzevir, 1651.
Scarce first edition of Gilbert's only other published work, whose first section contains "an extension of the cosmological ideas Gilbert introduced into the last section of de Magnete; it is dependent on the latter work for much of its vocabulary and basic assumptions..." (DSB V.397).
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