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Lot 105
Sale 6330 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 8, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$512
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[SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY]. GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Difesa di Galileo Galilei, noble Fiorentino... contro alle Calunie & imposture di Baldessar Capra, Milanese... [With:] CAPRA, Baldassarre (1580-1626). Usus et fabrica circini cuiusdam proportionis, per quem omnia sere tum Euclidis, tum mathematicorum omnium problemata facili negotio resolunntur. Bologna: H.H. del Dozza, 1655.
Together, 2 works in 2 volumes, small 4to (206 x 150 mm). Woodcut diagrams in the text. (Very light occasional spotting.) Modern boards. Provenance: Henry & Carol Faul (bookplate).
SECOND EDITION of these two related tracts, originally printed to appear in the same volume. Capra's Usus et fabrica circini... was essentially a Latin translation of Galileo's first book on the use of his compass wherein Capra accuses Galileo of plagiarizing him. Galileo quickly followed this with his Difesa in the same year, vindicating himself as the true creator of the particular compass and discoverer of Kepler's Supernova. cf. Carli & Favaro 251; Cinti 132; Riccardi i, 518 (complete Opere); Tomash & Williams C24 & G7.
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