Difesa di Galileo Galilei, nobile fiorentino, lettore delle matematiche nello studio di Padoua
contro alle calunnie & imposture di Baldessar Capra milanese : vsategli sì nella considerazione astronomica sopra la nuoua stella del MDCIIII come (& assai più) nel publicare nuouamente come sua inuenzione la fabrica & gli vsi del compasso geometrico & militare, sotto il titolo di Vsus & fabrica circini cuiusdam proportionis &c
by Galileo Galilei
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Printer's device shows Minerva riding a lion below statement "cum priuilegio" on t.p.; device on colophon shows two roosters with motto "fruges mendacii non comedetis." Another issue lacks statement "cum priuilegio" and has printer's device showing roosters on t.p.
Signatures: A-L⁴.
Last leaf is blank.
Errata on verso of leaf [43].
LC copy has tipped in newspaper clipping, dated Oct. 28, 1902, from F.B. Sanborn to the editor of The Republican about Galileo's inscription and tipped in description of the Torre al Gallo in Florence. Also has note laid in by Richard Garrett verifying the authenticity of Galileo's handwriting.
Brunet (suppl. 2) I, col. 529
LC copy has presentation inscription (partially cropped) by Galileo to Cipriano Saracinelli on title page; inscriptions of former owners Vincenzo Torrielli (dated 1813) and F.B. Sanborn (dated 1892) on title page; bookplate of William Harris Arnold.
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