TORRICELLI, Evangelista.

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Engraved frontis. port., engraved vignette on title, & woodcut illus. in the text. xlix, [1], 96 pp., one leaf. Large 4to, mid 18th-cent. half calf & marbled boards, inside front cover with stencilled binder’s label of A. Milne, Forres. Florence: J. Guiducci, 1715. First edition and a very fine and fresh copy. “This collection of Torricelli’s lectures provides an important summary of Torricelli’s theories, published posthumously by Tommaso Bonaventura; includes chapters on percussion, lightness, winds, military architecture, and mathematics. Chapter 7 on the movement of winds is a pioneer contribution in the field of meteorology explaining in detail their origin in atmospheric changes and refuting the contemporary theory that they issued from the earth. His two famous letters on the barometer are reprinted here...The preface by Bonaventura includes a life of Torricelli.”–Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, p. 322. Fine copy, bound somewhat unusually in a provincial English signed binding. ❧ Cinti 169. Dibner, Heralds of Science, 149. D.S.B., XIII, pp. 437-39. Riccardi, II, 544. Sparrow, Milestones of Science, 190.

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