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[Bechetti, Filippo]
General theory of the earth exhibited at the Volsca Academy of Velletri, 1782
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€ 150 - 200
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Rome, Paolo Giunchi, 1782. In 8th. Allegorical front door engraved in copper by Giuseppe Machiavelli based on a design by Felice Giani, thin woodcut frame on the title page, headboards and friezes engraved in wood, with errata paper, halos of humidity and slight browning, woodworm holes in the white margin of the LN files , coeval paperback in woodcut paper, back covered with modern paper, incomplete. § Giulio Cordara. De 'advantages of the Italian watch over the beyond . Alessandria, Ignazio Vimercati, 1783. In 8th. Thin woodblock frame on the title page, slight blooms, coeval paperback in woodblock paper.
Specialist Notes
First work: Riccardi, Biblioteca Matematica Italiana, I 100-101: "It is a more scholarly work than a scientific one, and regardless of what concerns terrestrial physics, it deals with the opinions of the ancients and of the moderns on the figure and the size of the earth ".
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