Venice, Guerilio, 1644.
Anticopernicus Catholicus, seu De Terrae Statione, et de Solis Motu, contra systema Copernicuanum, Catholicae Assertiones.
First and only edition of the first public appearance of Galileo’s recantation of heliocentrism in its original form in a superlative copy: completely untrimmed and in its original publisher’s boards as issued. Published at perhaps the lowest point of Galileo’s reputation in Italy, Polacco challenges Galileo’s astronomy on both scriptural..... More
