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Systema cosmicum / authore Galilaeo Galilaei ... ; in quo quatuor dialogis, de duobus maximis mundi systematibus, Ptolemaico & Copernicano, vtriusq, rationibus philosophicis ac naturalibus indefinite propositis disseritur ; ex italica lingua latine conuersum ; accessit appendix gemina, qua SS. Scripturae dicta cum terrae mobilitate conciliantur...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
- Standardized Title:
- Dialogo dei massimi sistemi. Latin
- Language:
- Italian
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Solar system.
- Astronomy--Early works to 1800.
- Astronomy.
- Penn Provenance:
- Royal Astronomical Society (stamp)
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 495 pages, 25 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portrait ; 20 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Dialogus de systemate mundi
- Place of Publication:
- Augustae Treboc. : Impensis Elzeviriorum, typis Davidis Hautti, anno 1635.
- Notes:
- Translation of Dialogo de massimi sistemi.
- Signatures: ):(⁴ a⁴ A-3T⁴.
- Added engraved t.p.: Dialogus de systemate mundi / autore Galilaeo Galilaei, lyncaeo, serenissimo Ferdinando II, Hetrur magno-duci dicatus. Augustae Treboc : Impensis Bonaventurae et Abraham Elzevir, Bibliopolar, Leydens, 1635.
- "Benevole lector" (translator's preface) signed: Matthias Berneggerus.
- Errata on last leaf.
- Includes index.
- The "Appendix gemina" comprises: Perioche ex Introductione in Martem Iohannis Kepleri, p. 459-464, and with special t.-p.: Epistola r.p.m. Pavli Antonii Foscarini ... circa pythagoricorum, & Copernici opinionem de mobilitate terræ, et stabilitate solis: et de novo systemate sev constitutione mundi: in qua Sacræ Scripturæ autoritates, & theologicæ propositiones, communiter adversus hanc opinionem adductæ conciliantur ... Ex italicâ in latinam linguam perspicuè & fideliter nunc conuersa. Iuxta editionem Neapoli typis excusam apud Lazarum Scorrigium anno 1615..., p. 465-495.
- Local Notes:
- Imperfect: top of engr. t.p. cut off.
- Cited in:
- Copinger, H.B. Elzevier Press, 1804
- Willems, A. Elzevier, 426
- Rahir, E. Elzevier, 418
- OCLC:
- 48595552
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