Opera Aliquot

by Celio Calcagnini

$16,500 · Offered by Martayan Lan

First edition

First edition of this collection of writings of the Ferrarese humanist, posthumous but all appearing for the first time, including his proto-Copernican dissertation advocating the movement of the earth. Although Thorndike and others have speculated that Calcagnini may have gotten wind of Copernican heliocentrism during a stay in Eastern Europe..... More

• Binding: Leather

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