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1691S13100Florence:: Gio: Filippo Cecchi 1691. 1691. Large 4to. xv CCLXIX 20 pp. Half-title title printed in red & black title vignette 75 copper engraved plates numerous woodcut initials and head & tailpieces index; prominent waterstains to corners lacks the portrait of Cosimo some copies have the portrait others do not. Later quarter vellum marbled boards black leather gilt-stamped spine label vellum tips. Very good. Second edition first printed in 1666/7. This marvelous work contains descriptions of experiments on air-pressure freezing of water an early account of Torricelli's invention of the barometer thermometer electrical and magnetic experiments measurements of the velocity of sound and light and experiments on heat and cold. It contains many large full-page engravings of experimental apparatus used to conduct these early experiments in natural physics. The engravings on pages iii vi viii and xiii show Torricelli's thermometer with a column of liquid and capsules of various density liquids that will either float of sink depending upon the surrounding temperature. Also known as a "termometro lento" slow thermometer this clever instrument is still marketed as a functioning curiosity today. / As the mechanism of the atmosphere exerting continuous pressure on the surface of the earth was unknown at that time the experiments using a barometer and bell jar pp. xxiv-xxxi seem rather naïve to us today. The members of the Academy couldn't determine why the mercury in the column didn't fall once the barometer was 'shielded' from the surrounding atmosphere. What they failed to realize is that the air pressure inside the bell jar remained the same as the outside since it had not been evacuated. Page lxxxxix depicts a curious experiment in which an organ pipe and a bellows to blow air through a pipe are encased in a vacuum chamber. The experiment demonstrated that when the chamber was evacuated the pipe no longer made sound even though the bellows were still forcing 'air' through the apparatus therefore showing that air at normal pressure was a necessary component to produce sound. / The Academy of Experiments was founded in Florence in 1657 and flourished for only ten years 1657-1667 and presents the first group effort at scientific investigation on the part of scientists including such original minds as Viviani Borelli Steno Redi Cassini and Torricelli. Its moving spirits were two of Galileo's most distinguished disciples Viviani and Torricelli. The necessary financial support came from the two Medicis the Grand Duke Ferdinand II of Tuscany and his brother Leopold; both of them had studied under Galilei. More than a decade before the formal institution of the Academy the two Medici brothers had started a laboratory well equipped with such scientific apparatus as was then obtainable. :: Wolf. / "This collection contains papers describing experiments on light sound and electricity. Amber rubbed in vacuo . . . magnetic attraction across a vacuum . . . magnetic screening . . . rubbed amber and gems . . . discharging action of flames . . . electrical attraction is mutual. . ." :: Wheeler. / Barchas-Stanford 1345 1666/7 ed.; Boffito 'Gli strumenti della scienza' pp. 133-134; Brunet V-29; Catalogo Bibl. Mediceo-Lorenese 569; Cinti 163; Dibner Heralds of Science 82; DSB IX p.3 Magalotti; Gamba 853; Krivatsy/NLM p.25 1666/7; Maylender Michele "Storia delle Accademie d'Italia" 1926-30 II pp. 7-16; Michel V-76; Riccardi II 407; Wellcome III p. 23; Wheeler 196 1684 ed.; Wolf The History of Science Technology and Philosophy I p. 55. This edition not in Bakken but has the 1684 translation. Gio: Filippo Cecchi, 1691. hardcover books
1654045344Piacenza: Heirs of Giovanni Bazachi 1654. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary vellum some browning and mild wear old label to spine small dampstain in the right margin early on some mild foxing and browning largely clean and bright. 2 volumes bound in one both rare. 96; 192pp. A curious work on mathematics Cabala and anagrams along with another curious work on church chronology. Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Magic Paranormal & Occult; Mathematics. Inventory No: 045344. <br/><br/> [Heirs of] Giovanni Bazachi hardcover books
16660000696Bononiae Bologna: Sumptibus haeredum Euangelistae de Duccijs 1666. First Edition. Vellum. Very good . Folio 31.4 x 21cm. Contemporary vellum. Collation: 16 576 70 p. engraved frontispiece and 36 woodblock prints in text or singly. The frontispiece has allegorical figures in a garden with arms of the University of Bologna. Bottom of spine repaired with new vellum. The internal condition is very good. This is a very scarce title from an Italian botanist and brother of naturalist Batolomeo Ambrosini. He succeeded his brother to the chair of botany at the University of Bolognia and also assumed direction of the botanical garden. His first work was Hortus Bononia studiosirum consistus which was followed posthumously with the Phytologiae offered here. The Phytologiae was intended to be the first of a two-volume dictionary of plants with the second to be on trees. The second volume was never completed. The woodcuts in this work on herbaceous plants were done by Tinti and provide a good working illustration for the plant described in the text. This very scarce work comes from a period of great botanical study and characterization in Italy. The genus Ambrosinia is named after the two brothers. Hunt 303; Pritzel 132. <br/><br/>This very scarce work comes from a period of great botanical study and characterization in Italy. The genus Ambrosinia is named after the two brothers. Hunt 303; Pritzel 132. Sumptibus haeredum Euangelistae de Duccijs hardcover books
1626D17852Venice: Giacomo Sarzina 1626. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 276 pp. 8vo 15.5x10 cm 6x4" old stiff wrappers paper label lettered in an old hand. Parallel text in Spanish and Italian. Very scarce 17th century conversation guide for Spanish visitors to Italy and the reverse. <br/><br/> Giacomo Sarzina hardcover books
168340699Bologna: ex typographia HH. Antonij Pisarrii 1683. First edition. <p> Inscribed by Bellini</p> <p>Bellini Lorenzo 1643-1704. De urinis et pulsibus de missione sanguinis de febribus de morbis capitis et pectoris. 4to. 20 606 i.e. 608pp. Woodcut ornaments. Bologna: ex typographia HH. Antonij Pisarrii 1683. 216 x 161 mm. Vellum c. 1683 title hand-inked on spine. Leaf Aaaa2 torn and repaired at an early date without loss of text otherwise a fine copy. Presentation copy from the author inscribed at the foot of the title: "All' Illmo Conte Tommaso della Gherardesca. l'Autore." </p> <p>First Edition inscribed by the author. This is the first inscribed copy of a major seventeenth century medical classic that has been on the market in more than a decade. Bellini professor of anatomy and medical theory at Pisa was one of the Italian founders of iatromechanics a system that framed physiologic events such as the circulation of the blood in terms of mathematical and physical principles. Bellini's De urinis et pulsibus represents the first important attempt by an Italian scientist to systematically apply iatromechanics to medical theory. "William Harvey's theory of the circulation was of fundamental importance to Bellini and other proponents of iatromechanism. Bellini asserted that good health depended on optimal function of the circulation of the blood and that disease was a manifestation of an inefficient circulation. Rejecting ancient humoral pathology he viewed blood as a physical fluid with specific properties that could be interpreted in terms of mathematical and physical principles. . . . Bellini emphasized that disease was often due to alterations in the elasticity or 'tone' of the solids or in the density of the fluids which hindered their motion. This in turn could cause local congestion or stagnation. Bellini's enthusiastic support of therapeutic bleeding reflected this pathophysiologic concept. He tried to prove that this phlebotomy increased the velocity of the circulation thereby washing away 'morbid matter' and restoring health" Fye pp. 181-82. </p> <p>In the book's section on diseases of the chest Bellini reported "several forms of heart disease especially of the syncopal type . . . in his book De urinis et pulsibus Bellini discusses the state of the coronary arteries and admits that the condition which he calls 'pressio' is dangerous and may cause the contraction of the heart to be abolished p. 541. He also has in mind external pressure by tumors fat and so on. However an intra-arterial coronary impediment of blood-flow by calcification was clearly described by this author. Bellini reported of a patient who died of a condition similar to the clinical picture of coronary disease as we now understand it in whose coronary arteries he found a 'stone.' It seems quite reasonable to deduce that Bellini saw in the post-mortem a coronary occlusion" Leibowitz History of Coronary Heart Disease p. 71. </p> <p>Bellini's work is also important in the history of urology as it marks the first important contribution to the chemical analysis of urine. Recognizing the value of urine as a diagnostic aid Bellini insisted on its chemical analysis in pathologic conditions. </p> <p>Bellini presented this copy of De urinis et pulsibus to Tommaso della Gherardesca 1654-1721 a distinguished member of an important Tuscan aristocratic family and as such a likely patron. Gherardesca was appointed bishop of Fiesole in 1702 and archbishop of Florence in 1703; he also founded the Seminario Maggiori di Firenze in 1712. The rarity of this inscription by Bellini cannot be overestimated. This is the first inscribed book by Bellini we have seen on the market in more than 40 years and it is also the first inscribed copy of a major seventeenth century classic on any aspect of medicine that we have seen on the market in more than a decade possibly longer. In addition this copy is clearly in the original binding in which it was presented and with the exception of one leaf which was inexplicably torn through and repaired the copy is in fine even very fine condition for a work of this period</p> . <p>Garrison-Morton 762.1 4162. Fye "Lorenzo Bellini" Clinical Cardiology 20 1997: 181-82. Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Willius & Dry History of the Heart and the Circulation p. 64. Murphy History of Urology pp. 147-48.</p> . ex typographia HH. Antonij Pisarrii unknown books
161352482Augsburg: C. Daberholtzer for Marcus Welser At the sign of the Pine 1613. First Edition. 4to pp. xii 280 10 2 blanks. Illustrated with six full page and 21 text woodcuts with a woodcut title device. Bound in contemporary vellum over thin soft boards ms spine title. A fine copy spot on two leaves early ownership signature of D. Attanzio Arcelli. Krivatsy 8979; RISM B VI2 654; UCBA I:1603; Cicognara 1759;. This is the first edition of this illustrated encyclopaedia of the duties of rural and urban servants in the ancient world. This covers the family life and legal status of a wide range of tradesmen and blue collar workers: gladiators scribes bookkeepers musicians physicians and surgeons comedians artisans tutors gardeners cooks midwives teachers and fishermen. There are plates of musical instruments ball players ships jewelry and a wine cellar. The text draws on ancient medieval and contemporary sources. The distinguished doctor Fabricus ab Aquapendente contributed a short essay on food addressed to the Augusburg merchant and historian Marcus Welser. A learned antiquary born in Padua in 1591 Pignoria was educated by the Jesuits and a canonry of Treviso was conferred upon him by cardinal Fr. Barberini. This present work is called "a valuable work" although criticised as being diffuse. This offers an interesting glimpse into the working of the classical household. [C. Daberholtzer for Marcus Welser] At the sign of the Pine unknown books
16993149Full vellum with titles inked to spines. 6 raised bands. Red speckled edges. Fissure in vellum at front hinges but quite firm. Wine colored stain to front cover of vol. II near spine. Many foldout plates. Late 17th century compilation of medical specialties. A nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 1072; 1223 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. Johan. Anthon. Chouet & Davidis Ritter hardcover books
