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by Galileo Galilei

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First edition

4to 19.0 x 13.7 cm , 4 ff., 306 recte 314 pp., 6 pp., with numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations in text. Bound in contemporary English blind-ruled sheep, paper label on spine, 18th-century engraved Hopetoun bookplate. Hinges slightly rubbed and small chip to head of spine. A very clean, crisp copy. First edition of Galileo’s most important work, the foundation of modern physics.This work was Galileo’s ‘greatest

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