Diversarum speculationum mathematicarum, & physicarum liber [Theoremata arithmetica; De rationibus operationum perspectivae; De mechanicis; Disputationes de quibusdam placitis Aristotelis; In quintum Euclidis librum; Physica & mathematica responsa per epistolas].
Turin: heirs of Niccolò Bevilaqua, 1585. First edition, very rare, of Benedetti’s major work, his Book of Various Mathematical and Physical Ideas, which include theories of motion and experiments on falling bodies predating Galileo’s studies on the subject, as well as studies of perspective presented in three-dimensional terms, fifty years..... More
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