De Motionibus Naturalibus a Gravitate Pendentibus…

by Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

$14,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Numerous woodcut diagrams in the text. 4 p.l., 566, 5 pp. Thickish 4to, cont. semi-stiff boards a little soiled , uncut. Reggio di Calabria: D. Ferri, 1670. First edition and scarce. “Borelli’s second book on mechanics is important as the first treatise on capillarity. It contains the important investigations from which the author formulated the law that the height of the ascent of liquids in capillary tubes is inversely proportional to their

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