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Scientific Instruments
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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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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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Instrument Book With Do-It-Yourself Compass
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[Instruments] GALGEMAIR, Georg. Herrn Georgii Galgemairs Kurtzer gründlicher gebesserter unnd vermehrter underricht/ Zuberitung und gebrauch/ Der hochnutlichen mathematischen Instrumenten/ Proportional Schregmäß und Circkels/ benebens dem fundament deß visierens. Ulm, Joseph Meder, 1615.
Second, greatly expanded edition of a primer describing the construction & use of two instruments—a proportional compass (Circkel) and lineal compass (Schregmäß)—for the measurement of geometrical solids and lines, respectively.
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The Invention of the Air Pump and the Electric Generator
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GUERICKE, Otto von. Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio Prim R. P. Gaspare Schotto.... Amsterdam, J. Janssonium a Waesberge, 1672.
First edition, and a fine copy, of one of the great classics of science.
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An Unusually Fine Example Of An
Early American Backstaff
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HAM, James. Backstaff, fruitwood frame with two boxwood arcs. 1759.
Rare, early American-made back-staff, one of the principle
instruments of navigation throughout the 17th and 18th centuries.
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