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Nicola Schiratti, 1640. In 4th. Typographic mark on the title page, missing the portrait of the author, some burnished paper, back binding in parchment with author and title stamped in gold on the spine with friezes.
Specialist Notes
Doctor and philosopher (Rapallo 1577 - Padua 1657), professor of logic in Pisa, then of philosophy in Padua (1609), then in Bologna. He returned to Padua in 1645 to teach medicine. Peripatetic, he supported the Aristotelian and Galenic positions in numerous works of medicine and natural philosophy. In the present work, the philosopher contested the idea that the ashen light of the lunar surface, when the Sun illuminates only a sickle, depended on the reflection of the sun's rays on the surface of the Earth. Instead, he argued that the cause was to be found in the illumination of the Sun in the environment surrounding the body of the Moon. Like the "Luciferous stone of Bologna", according to Liceti, very faithful to the Aristotelian tradition, the Moon had the property of retaining light.
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