POLENI, Giovanni (1683-1761). De castellis per quae derivantur fluviorum aquae habentibus latera convergentia liber . Padua: Giuseppe Comino, 1718.
POLENI, Giovanni (1683-1761). De castellis per quae derivantur fluviorum aquae habentibus latera convergentia liber . Padua: Giuseppe Comino, 1718. 4° (261 x 181mm). Folding engraved plate, woodcut device on title and Comino's arms on penultimate page. (Unobtrusive waterstain in upper margin of last few leaves.) ?18th-century vellum (wormed at head of spine). Provenance: Marquess Obizzi (cut down bookplate and pencilled inscription: ‘esemplare provemente dealle Biblioteca del Castello del Catajo’). FIRST EDITION of this learned treatise on the movement of water by the polymath Giovanni Poleni appointed professor of astronomy at the University of Padua at the age of twenty-five and of physics seven years later. His unequalled knowledge of hydraulic architecture was put to good use by several princes who used his knowledge to define their territorial boundaries by the rivers that flowed through or around them. Riccardo I(ii) 292: ‘bella edizione’.
POLENI, Giovanni (1683-1761). De castellis per quae derivantur fluviorum aquae habentibus latera convergentia liber . Padua: Giuseppe Comino, 1718.
POLENI, Giovanni (1683-1761). De castellis per quae derivantur fluviorum aquae habentibus latera convergentia liber . Padua: Giuseppe Comino, 1718. 4° (261 x 181mm). Folding engraved plate, woodcut device on title and Comino's arms on penultimate page. (Unobtrusive waterstain in upper margin of last few leaves.) ?18th-century vellum (wormed at head of spine). Provenance: Marquess Obizzi (cut down bookplate and pencilled inscription: ‘esemplare provemente dealle Biblioteca del Castello del Catajo’). FIRST EDITION of this learned treatise on the movement of water by the polymath Giovanni Poleni appointed professor of astronomy at the University of Padua at the age of twenty-five and of physics seven years later. His unequalled knowledge of hydraulic architecture was put to good use by several princes who used his knowledge to define their territorial boundaries by the rivers that flowed through or around them. Riccardo I(ii) 292: ‘bella edizione’.
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