Anticopernicus Catholicus, seu De Terrae Statione, et de Solis Motu, contra systema Copernicuanum, Catholicae Assertiones

by Giorgio Polacco

$24,500 · Offered by Martayan Lan

First and only edition of the first public appearance of Galileo’s recantation of heliocentrism in its original form in a superlative copy: completely untrimmed and in its original publisher’s boards as issued. Published at perhaps the lowest point of Galileo’s reputation in Italy, Polacco challenges Galileo’s astronomy on both scriptural..... More

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