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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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's GRAVESANDE, Willem Jacob. Essai de perspective. The Hague, la Veuve d'Abraham Troyel, 1711.
I. Rare first edition of this "milestone in the gradual transformation of the science of perspective into descriptive geometry." - Vagnetti Praised by Johan Bernoulli, this important study simplifies the various methods then in practical use, including those dealing with shadows and gnomics.
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Agricola's First Book On Mining
In A Rare Separate Leipzig Imprint
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AGRICOLA, Georg. Bermannus, sive de re metallica. Ab accurata autoris recognitione & emendatione nunc primum editus. Cum nomenclatura rerum metallicarum. Leipzig, Valentinus Pap, 1546.
Rare Leipzig printing of Agricola's first book devoted to mining, "a pioneer delineation of mining and metallurgy" (DSB), and of particular interest to the study of occupational diseases.
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With 150 Woodcuts
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Anonymous. Herbolario Volgare, nel qual e le virtu de le herbe, & molti altri simplici sec dechiarano, con alcune belle aggionte novamente de latino in volgare tradutto. Venice, Giovanni Andrea Vavassore, 1534.
Rare, second Italian-language edition (first 1522) of the Herbarius latinus, an important document for the dissemination of botanical/medical knowledge in popular culture, particularly for the adoption of this originally German-printed Latin work for readers in the Veneto. With 150 nearly full-page woodcut illustrations of plants.
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Philip Imser's Copy Of Apianus' 'Cosmography'
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[IMSER, Philip] APIANUS, Petrus / ed. FRISIUS, Gemma. Cosmographicus Liber. Antwerp, Johann Grapheus, 1533.
Unusually interesting copy of one of the most important geographical/astronomical texts of the Renaissance, annotated by the mathematician and clockmaker Philip Imser, a colleague of Apian's on the Mathematics faculty at the University of Tn.
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