Catalogue 38
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Scientific Instruments
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The Inventor of the Barometer
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TORRICELLI, Evangelista/BONAVENTURI, Tommasso, ed. Lezioni Accademiche. Florence, Jacopo Guiducci & Santo Franchi, 1715.
First edition of 12 collected lectures composed for the Academia della Crusca, posthumously published; “an important summary of Torricelli’s theories,” including reprints of his important letters on the barometer.
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Reading a Sundial By Starlight
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ZUBLER, Leonhard. Novum Instrumentum Sciotericum, Das ist, Kurtzer und Grundtlicher Bericht, Wie nicht allein aller hand Sonnenuhren, sampt den XII. Zürich, Jonas Geßner, 1609.
First edition, second issue (see below) of this liberally illustrated description of a solar cum sidereal gnomon, designed for all “liebhabern artis Sciotericae,” lovers of sundials.
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