GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, intorno à due nuove scienze attenenti alla mecanica & i movimenti locali . Leiden: Elzevier Press, 1638. 4 o (199 x 145 mm). Text of the dialogues in italic type, formal proofs in Roman type, errata leaf at end, printer's woodcut device on title, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, letterpress tables, woodcut initials, head- and tailpiece. (First and last quires with hinges reinforced, minor dampstaining in gutters of first few leaves, repaired hole to errata leaf from removed inkstamp, slightly affecting catchword on recto, some foxing.) 19th-century vellum over pasteboard, edges stained red; modern slipcase. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MODERN TEXTBOOK OF PHYSICS AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE SCIENCE OF MECHANICS. Sentenced by the Inquisition to permanent house arrest in 1633, following the condemnation of the pro-Copernican Dialogo sopre i due massimi sistemi del mondo , Galileo took up his unfinished work on mechanics at the urging of his old friend Ascanio Piccolomini, Archbishop of Siena. The book was completed by mid-1635, but publication was delayed by the search for a printer. Unable to obtain an ecclesiastical licence to print the work in Venice, Galileo was obliged to have it printed by the Elzeviers in Leiden. The mathematical analyses of the Discorsi provide the foundation for the philosophical exposition of the Dialogo and thus are "considered by most scientists as Galileo's greatest work" (PMM). The work is divided into four dialogues between the interlocutors of the earlier Dialogo . The first two contain the entirety of Galileo's work on the mechanics of materials, and constitute the first publication in the field of strength of materials. The last two dialogues are devoted to the mathematical science of motion, or kinematics. The Two New Sciences laid the foundation for modern physics, not only through Galileo's application of mathematics to the study of motion, but because in this work some of the fundamental problems of physics were posed along with discussions of their possible solutions. Carli and Favaro 162; Cinti 102; Dibner Heralds of Science 141; Grolier/Horblit 36; Norman 859; PMM 130; Riccardi I, 516.12/1; Roberts & Trent Bibliotheca Mechanica , pp. 129-30; Sparrow Milestones of Science 75; Wellcome 2648; Willems 2648.
GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, intorno à due nuove scienze attenenti alla mecanica & i movimenti locali . Leiden: Elzevier Press, 1638. 4 o (199 x 145 mm). Text of the dialogues in italic type, formal proofs in Roman type, errata leaf at end, printer's woodcut device on title, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, letterpress tables, woodcut initials, head- and tailpiece. (First and last quires with hinges reinforced, minor dampstaining in gutters of first few leaves, repaired hole to errata leaf from removed inkstamp, slightly affecting catchword on recto, some foxing.) 19th-century vellum over pasteboard, edges stained red; modern slipcase. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MODERN TEXTBOOK OF PHYSICS AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE SCIENCE OF MECHANICS. Sentenced by the Inquisition to permanent house arrest in 1633, following the condemnation of the pro-Copernican Dialogo sopre i due massimi sistemi del mondo , Galileo took up his unfinished work on mechanics at the urging of his old friend Ascanio Piccolomini, Archbishop of Siena. The book was completed by mid-1635, but publication was delayed by the search for a printer. Unable to obtain an ecclesiastical licence to print the work in Venice, Galileo was obliged to have it printed by the Elzeviers in Leiden. The mathematical analyses of the Discorsi provide the foundation for the philosophical exposition of the Dialogo and thus are "considered by most scientists as Galileo's greatest work" (PMM). The work is divided into four dialogues between the interlocutors of the earlier Dialogo . The first two contain the entirety of Galileo's work on the mechanics of materials, and constitute the first publication in the field of strength of materials. The last two dialogues are devoted to the mathematical science of motion, or kinematics. The Two New Sciences laid the foundation for modern physics, not only through Galileo's application of mathematics to the study of motion, but because in this work some of the fundamental problems of physics were posed along with discussions of their possible solutions. Carli and Favaro 162; Cinti 102; Dibner Heralds of Science 141; Grolier/Horblit 36; Norman 859; PMM 130; Riccardi I, 516.12/1; Roberts & Trent Bibliotheca Mechanica , pp. 129-30; Sparrow Milestones of Science 75; Wellcome 2648; Willems 2648.
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