De Motu Tractatus

by Michel Varro

$39,500 · Offered by Martayan Lan

Extremely rare first edition of this highly original and insufficiently known work on mechanics, which recent scholarship by Camerota and Hellbing has shown to be the most important such work in the generation between Guidobaldo and Galileo. Highlights include the revolutionary view that the true science of motion is the..... More

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