Prodromo, overo, saggio di alcune inventioni nuove premesso all’arte maestra. Brescia: Rizzardi, 1670. [With:] Magisterium naturæ et artis: opus physico-mathematicum P. Francisci Tertii de Lanis Societatis Iesu Brixiensis; in quo occultiora naturalis philosophiæ principia manifestantur, et multiplici tum experimentorum, tum demonstrationum serie comprobantur; ac demum tam antiqua pene omnia artis inuenta, quam multa noua ab ipso authore excogitata in lucem proferuntur.
[Vols. I & II:] Brescia; [Vol. III:] Parma: Brescia: G. M. Riccardi; H. Rosati, 1684-86; 1692. First editions of two important works from the library of the distinguished Riccati family of mathematicians and physicists. The Prodromo, Lana’s most famous work, contains his design for an air-ship kept aloft by means..... More
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