GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). La operazione del compasso geometrico, et militare . Padua: Paolo Frambotto, 1640. 4° (222 x 165mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials and tailpieces, diagrams, one folding engraved diagram tipped in. (Occasional small stains, short marginal tear to G2, several bifolia reinforced at hinge, some spotting to folding diagram.) Modern stiff paper wrappers. Provenance : old pen annotations to A1.
GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). La operazione del compasso geometrico, et militare . Padua: Paolo Frambotto, 1640. 4° (222 x 165mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials and tailpieces, diagrams, one folding engraved diagram tipped in. (Occasional small stains, short marginal tear to G2, several bifolia reinforced at hinge, some spotting to folding diagram.) Modern stiff paper wrappers. Provenance : old pen annotations to A1. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION; the third in Italian, of Galileo's first published work. Around 1596 Galileo had invented an instrument to help gunners sight their cannons using an elevation gauge and quadrant. Over the next few years he adapted the instrument's design for more general calculating purposes and commissioned Marcantonio Mazzoleni to construct a number of copies, which he sold. The present text was composed as a manual for its use. It circulated in manuscript until 1606, when it was first printed privately in an edition of only 60 copies. A Latin version, the Tractatus de proportionum instrumento , was published in 1612. The first edition -- perhaps because Galileo wished to maintain his monopoly on construction of the instrument -- was unillustrated. The present edition contains a fine folding plate. Carli-Favaro 38 (175); Cinti 215 (108); Drake, Galileo at Work , 38-45, 121; Riccardi I 506.
GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). La operazione del compasso geometrico, et militare . Padua: Paolo Frambotto, 1640. 4° (222 x 165mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials and tailpieces, diagrams, one folding engraved diagram tipped in. (Occasional small stains, short marginal tear to G2, several bifolia reinforced at hinge, some spotting to folding diagram.) Modern stiff paper wrappers. Provenance : old pen annotations to A1.
GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). La operazione del compasso geometrico, et militare . Padua: Paolo Frambotto, 1640. 4° (222 x 165mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials and tailpieces, diagrams, one folding engraved diagram tipped in. (Occasional small stains, short marginal tear to G2, several bifolia reinforced at hinge, some spotting to folding diagram.) Modern stiff paper wrappers. Provenance : old pen annotations to A1. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION; the third in Italian, of Galileo's first published work. Around 1596 Galileo had invented an instrument to help gunners sight their cannons using an elevation gauge and quadrant. Over the next few years he adapted the instrument's design for more general calculating purposes and commissioned Marcantonio Mazzoleni to construct a number of copies, which he sold. The present text was composed as a manual for its use. It circulated in manuscript until 1606, when it was first printed privately in an edition of only 60 copies. A Latin version, the Tractatus de proportionum instrumento , was published in 1612. The first edition -- perhaps because Galileo wished to maintain his monopoly on construction of the instrument -- was unillustrated. The present edition contains a fine folding plate. Carli-Favaro 38 (175); Cinti 215 (108); Drake, Galileo at Work , 38-45, 121; Riccardi I 506.
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