[GALILEIANA].
Rome, Ignazio de Lazaro, 1658.
Terra machinis mota dissertationes geometricae, mechanicae, physicae, hydrostaticae.
Scarce augmented edition of this work on the theory of machines and the nature of gravity by the young Jesuit Paolo Casati. The work imaginatively envisions a Latin dialogue between three great physicists of the preceding generation, all recently dead in the 1640s: Galileo; Marin Mersenne, his greatest champion outside..... More