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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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ANONYMOUS. Il Nuovo Computista pei Commercianti ridotto alla massima facilità.
. Milano, Cartaro Stampatore Candido Bucinelli, [1811.].
Rare ephemeral pocket book giving the exchange rates between Milan and various Italian city-states or regions as well as the most commonly encountered European currencies.
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Precursor To Galileo’s De Motu
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BENEDETTI, Giovanni Battista. Resolvtio omnivm Evclidis problematvm aliorumqэ ad hoc necessario inuentorum vna tantummodo circini data apertura, per Ioannem Baptistam de Benedictis inventa. . Venice, apud Bartholomaeum Caesanum, 1553.
Scarce first edition of the author’s first book, treating selected Euclidean problems by means of a ruler and a compass with fixed setting, “of outstanding importance in the history of the laws of falling bodies.” — Drake & Drabkin, Mechanics in 16th-Century Italy, p. 32.
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"Copernicus First Scientific Work'
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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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