Lezioni Accademiche

by Evangelista/Bonaventuri Torricelli, ed, Tommasso

$4,850 · Offered by Martayan Lan

First edition · Signed

First edition of 12 collected lectures composed for the Academia della Crusca, posthumously published; “an important summary of Torricelli’s theories,” including reprints of his important letters on the barometer. Torricelli (1608-47) was Galileo’s pupil and secretary, succeeding him as professor of mathematics at Florence. Calling himself “a Galileist by profession..... More

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