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The Discorso Revised
Item #5083 Discorso al Serenissimo Don Cosimo II…Intorno alle cose, che Stanno in su l’acqua,...
Florence, Cosimo Giunti, 1612.

Discorso al Serenissimo Don Cosimo II…Intorno alle cose, che Stanno in su l’acqua, o che in quella si muovono.

[BOUND WITH:][GALILEI, Galileo & CASTELLI, Benedetto]. Risposta alle Opposizioni del S. Lodovico delle Colombe, e del S. Vincenzo di Grazia... Florence, Cosimo Giunti, 1615. (1) ff, (2), 319 [i.e. 335] pp., with numerous mispaginations, [5] including printer’s emblem.  The second augmented edition of Galileo’s classic on hydrostatics, published the same..... More

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Galileo's Scientific Manifesto
"One of the Most Celebrated Polemics in the History of Science" (Stillman Drake)
Item #3704 Il Saggiatore nel quale con bilancia esquisita si ponderano le cose contenute nella...
Rome, Mascardi, 1623.

Il Saggiatore nel quale con bilancia esquisita si ponderano le cose contenute nella Libra Astronomica ... di Lotario Sarsi.

First edition, first issue (with shorter errata), and complete copy of an outstanding document in the history of science. Il Saggiatore is often called Galileo’s “scientific manifesto,” and is certainly one of the most celebrated polemics in the history of physical science. It is the first of Galileo’s works written..... More

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Foundation Book in the History of Computing
Item #5127 Le Operazioni del Compasso Geometrico et Militare di Galileo Galilei. Galileo GALILEI
Padova, Paolo Frambotto, 1649

Le Operazioni del Compasso Geometrico et Militare di Galileo Galilei.

A superlative copy of the scarce third edition of Le Operazioni del Compasso Geometrico, containing an enlarged illustration of Galileo’s sector for measuring and swiftly computing distances and mathematical problems. The original edition, published in 1606 and Galileo’s first printed book of significance, did not contain an illustration of his..... More

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The Collected Works of Galileo
Item #3811 Opere di Galileo Galilei...In questa nuoua editione insieme raccolte, e di varij...
Bologna, HH. del Dozza, 1655-56.

Opere di Galileo Galilei...In questa nuoua editione insieme raccolte, e di varij trattati dell’ istesso autore non più stampati accresciute.

First collected edition of Galileo’s works, appearing only a year after his death and of great interest for his 17th-century reception. This was the edition in which Newton and later eminent scientists read their Galileo. Included here are not only most of the seminal pieces written and published over a...... More

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Galileo’s Foundation of Modern Physics
Item #5860 Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, intorno à due nuove scienze Attenenti all...
Leiden, Elseveir, 1638.

Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, intorno à due nuove scienze Attenenti all mechanica & i movimenti locali ... con une appendice del centro di gravita à d’alcuni solidi.

First edition of Galileo’s most important work, the foundation of modern physics. This work was Galileo’s ‘greatest scientific achievement … Mathematicians and physicists of the later seventeenth century, Isaac Newton among them, rightly supposed that Galileo had begun a new era in the science of mechanics. It was upon his..... More

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