LES NOUVELLES PENSEES DE GALILEI, MATHEMATICIEN ET INGENIEUR DU DUC DE FLORENCE.
by [Galilei, Galileo. ] 1564-1642
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
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About This Item
Paris: For Pierre Rocolet. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1639. First Edition. Paper wraps. Science; Physics; Mechanics; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; Later paper wrappers, lacking 2 front blanks, lacking pp 85-96 & pp 147-158. Woodcut illus. Throughout text, 1 folding plate; creased & repaired on verso. Worming to upper fore-edge margins. Nonetheless a very rare nicely illustrated copy of this work published during Galileo's lifetime. He probably died at the age of 77 on Jan-8,1642 in Arcetri Italy. New thoughts of Galilei, mathematician and engineer ... Or wonderful inventions, demonstrations ... Unknown at present, it is treatise on the proportion of movements, both natural and violent, and of all that is most subtle in the Mechanics and in physic. Provenance- Sessler's Book Store, Mabel Zahn, ; Wasserman. Rare, only one copy has come to auction as of this date. .
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- Title
- LES NOUVELLES PENSEES DE GALILEI, MATHEMATICIEN ET INGENIEUR DU DUC DE FLORENCE.
- Author
- [Galilei, Galileo. ] 1564-1642
- Format/Binding
- Paper wraps
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- For Pierre Rocolet
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1639
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