BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso. De Vi Percussionis, et Motionibus Naturalibus a Gravitate pendentibus. Leyden, Peter Vander Aa, 1686
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4to, mm. 210x170; Orginal sewing carboard binding; pp. 16 nn., including Frontispiece and Title page, 262, 22 nn.; Vignette at the Title page, 6 folded plates out text, all engraved in copper.Stamp library extinct the title page.
Rare and important illustrated edition, with plates engraved. In this work Borelli proposes the theory of percussion of hard bodies and responds to the controversy with Stefano degli Angeli.
Roberts & Trent: “In this, Borelli's first book on mechanics, he quotes Galileo's youthful work on percussion, the fourth Dialogo, and lectures by Torricelli. As well as the detailed discussion of impact, the book deals with the dynamics of falling bodies, vibration, gravity, fluid mechanics, magnetism, and pendular motion.... he gives the name resilience for the first time to a number of problems now classed under this name.”
Gillispie, D.S.B., II, pp. 306-314; Riccardi, I, col. 159 n. 6.2; Roberts & Trent, Bibl. Mechanica, pp. 41-2.
Condition Report: Some browned leaves, good specimen. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
Rare and important illustrated edition, with plates engraved. In this work Borelli proposes the theory of percussion of hard bodies and responds to the controversy with Stefano degli Angeli.
Roberts & Trent: “In this, Borelli's first book on mechanics, he quotes Galileo's youthful work on percussion, the fourth Dialogo, and lectures by Torricelli. As well as the detailed discussion of impact, the book deals with the dynamics of falling bodies, vibration, gravity, fluid mechanics, magnetism, and pendular motion.... he gives the name resilience for the first time to a number of problems now classed under this name.”
Gillispie, D.S.B., II, pp. 306-314; Riccardi, I, col. 159 n. 6.2; Roberts & Trent, Bibl. Mechanica, pp. 41-2.
Condition Report: Some browned leaves, good specimen. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
