Terra machinis mota dissertationes geometricae, mechanicae, physicae, hydrostaticae

by Paolo Casati

$11,000 · Offered by Martayan Lan

Scarce augmented edition of this work on the theory of machines and the nature of gravity by the young Jesuit Paolo Casati. The work imaginatively envisions a Latin dialogue between three great physicists of the preceding generation, all recently dead in the 1640s: Galileo; Marin Mersenne, his greatest champion outside..... More

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