Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, intorno adue nuove Scienze. Attenenti all Mechanica & i Movimenti Locali … Con une Appendice del centro di gravita ad’alcuni Solidi.
Leiden: Elzevier, 1638. First edition, the extremely rare and virtually unrecorded first issue, of Galileo’s last and most important work; this issue has the final gathering as a bifolium Rr2, with the final leaf blank, before the addition of the index and errata. The Discorsi is “the first modern textbook..... More
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