Tinassi, Nicolo Angelo[?], 1656
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Maker: Tinassi, Nicolo Angelo[?]

Year: 1656

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Manufacturing Location: Rome, Italy

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Collection: Galilei, Galileo, Treatise on the Sphere

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Around Galileo: A selection of books, gathered with passion. Item 28.

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Info from pamphlet: 12[deg?] (139 x 75 mm) 16, 296, 4 pp. First extremely rare edition of early work by Galileo, written in 1590s but published posthumously. Text from lectures given by Galileo at Padua, likely on the subject of Sacrobosco's De Sphaera. CINTI, n. 133; RICCARDI I, 519. Figures examining an armillary sphere, one gazing at sky through refracting telescope.

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