Vita e Commercio Letterario di Galileo Galilei

by Giovanni Battista Clemente de’ Nelli

$1,750 · Offered by Martayan Lan

First edition of the most detailed eighteenth-century biography of Galileo, “particularly important and authoritative because Nelli had discovered Galileo’s papers and had at his disposal an impressive collection of sources” (The Cambridge Companion to Galileo). Nelli’s 18th century biography stands as a comprehensive feat which would not be equaled in..... More

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