LEZIONI ACCADEMICHE. by TORRICELLI, Evangelista. Edited by Tommaso Bonaventuri.: - 1715

Florence, Jacopo Guiducci, 1715.. FIRST EDITION 1715, small 4to, approximately 265 x 190 mm, 10½ x 7½ inches, Italian text, engraved portrait frontispiece after Pietro Anichini, printer's engraved device on title page, 3 small text woodcuts, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Pages: [4], v- xlix, [1], 1-96, including half-title, LACKING IMPRIMATUR LEAF C10, bound in later stiff vellum with yapp edges, gilt lettered and decorated black morocco label, edges untrimmed. Vellum faintly marked and faded, couple of small light stains to lower cover, top edges dusty, strip of pale browning and faint damp staining to few upper margins of various sizes, affecting first 30 pages, not affecting printed area, very small pale stain to 1 lower margin, otherwise contents clean and crisp. A very good copy. 12 posthumously published lectures by Galileo's successor as Professor of mathematicsa at Florence, delivered to the Accademia della Crusca, the Studio Fiorentino, and the Academy of Drawing. The lectures mainly concern physics including discussions on impact, wind and military architecture. The editor's preface contains a life of Torricelli and an overview of his work. It also reprints Torricelli's letters on his invention of the mercury barometer. Haskell F. Norman Library, Volume II, page 761, No. 2088; Dictionary of Scientific Biography Volume XIII, pages 437-439; Honeyman Collection of Scientific Books, Part VII, No. 2993; Dibner Library, Heralds of Science, revised edition, page 70, No.149; A Catalogue of Printed Books in the Wellcome Library, Volume 5, page 287. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.