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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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The First Separately Issued Archimedean Texts
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ARCHIMEDES/BOETHIUS/CAMPANO Da Novara/GAURICO, Luca, ed.. Tetragonismus id est circuli quadratura per Cnu, Archimede Syracusanu atqz boetium mathematicae perspicacissimos adinuenta. Venice, Ioan. Bapti. Sessa,, 1503.
First published Latin edition of De Mensura Circuli and De Quadratura Parabolae, containing Archimedes' application of the method of exhaustion (the early form of integration) and the earliest theoretical calculation of p; apart from Valla's excerpts of 1501, THE FIRST PRINTED LATIN TEXTS OF ARCHIMEDES (Rose, p. 50).
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The First Treatise On Capillarity
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BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso. De Motionibus Naturalibus a Gravitate Pendentibus Liber... Calabria, Dominici Ferri, 1670.
Very rare first edition of this important work on mechanics by Borelli and the first treatise on capillarity.
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Apollonius Epitome
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[Apollonius Pergaeus / Archimedes] BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso. Elementa Conica'et Archimedis Opera Nova & breviora methodo demonstrata. Rome, Mascardi, 1679.
Scarce first edition of this pocket epitome of Apollonius' Conics along with a pr's of the arguments of various works of Archimedes.
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Drawing Instrument For Conic Sections (1627)
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[Instruments] BRAMER, Benjamin. Instrumentum Conicum Universale. Kassel, 1627.
Very rare first and only edition of this separately published broadside, describing an instrument for drawing conic sections invented by one of the most prolific architects and mathematicians of early seventeenth-century Germany.
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