GUIDUCCI, Mario. Lettera al M.R.P. Tarquinio Galluzzi della Compagnia di Giesu... Della quale si giustifica dell'imputazion dategli da Lottaro Sarsi Sigensano nella Libra Astronomica, e Filosofica . Florence: Z. Pignoni, 1620.
GUIDUCCI, Mario. Lettera al M.R.P. Tarquinio Galluzzi della Compagnia di Giesu... Della quale si giustifica dell'imputazion dategli da Lottaro Sarsi Sigensano nella Libra Astronomica, e Filosofica . Florence: Z. Pignoni, 1620. 4 o (191 x 138 mm). (Some minor spotting.) Modern panelled calf antique. FIRST EDITION of one of the rarest books in the "controversy of the comets" involving Galileo. "In 1620 Guiducci protested the treatment he had received in the Libra by publishing [the present] letter addressed to his former professor of rhetoric, Tarquinio Galluzzi of the Collegio Romano. He had first considered replying directly to Grassi, but Celi advised against that. Although Galileo probably participated in experiments described in Guiducci's letter countering those in the Libra , the letter was entirely Guiducci's" (Stillman Drake, Galileo at Work , p.279). This work was for many years considered to be partly written by Galileo and the text was incorporated in all the editions of Galileo's works. Not in Cinti. RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , no copies have sold in at least 30 years.
GUIDUCCI, Mario. Lettera al M.R.P. Tarquinio Galluzzi della Compagnia di Giesu... Della quale si giustifica dell'imputazion dategli da Lottaro Sarsi Sigensano nella Libra Astronomica, e Filosofica . Florence: Z. Pignoni, 1620.
GUIDUCCI, Mario. Lettera al M.R.P. Tarquinio Galluzzi della Compagnia di Giesu... Della quale si giustifica dell'imputazion dategli da Lottaro Sarsi Sigensano nella Libra Astronomica, e Filosofica . Florence: Z. Pignoni, 1620. 4 o (191 x 138 mm). (Some minor spotting.) Modern panelled calf antique. FIRST EDITION of one of the rarest books in the "controversy of the comets" involving Galileo. "In 1620 Guiducci protested the treatment he had received in the Libra by publishing [the present] letter addressed to his former professor of rhetoric, Tarquinio Galluzzi of the Collegio Romano. He had first considered replying directly to Grassi, but Celi advised against that. Although Galileo probably participated in experiments described in Guiducci's letter countering those in the Libra , the letter was entirely Guiducci's" (Stillman Drake, Galileo at Work , p.279). This work was for many years considered to be partly written by Galileo and the text was incorporated in all the editions of Galileo's works. Not in Cinti. RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , no copies have sold in at least 30 years.
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