1718 GALILEO GALILEI OPERE illustrated VELLUM BOUND antique SCARCE Vol. II

Opere di Galileo Galilei Nobile Florentino Accademico Linceo GIA LETTORE DELLE MATEMATICHE NELLE VNIUERSITA DI PISA, E DI PADOUA, DI POI SOPRAORDINARIO NELLO STUDIO DI PISA. PRIMARIO FILOSOFO, E MATEMATICO DEL SERENISSIMO GRAN DUCA DI TOSCANA. Florence, Per Gio. Gaetano Tartini, e Santi Franchi; 1718 Volume II (of 3)  [viii] 722 [2] pp. Second collective edition of Galilei's Opere , edited by Tommaso Bonaventura. Full vellum binding Very good condition, wormhole at the margin of few leaves Text in Italian ==================== RARE EDITION OF GALILEO'S COMPLETE WORKS (excepting the DIALOGO, which was still on the Index of Prohibited Books at the time), preserves a record of some of the most seminal discoveries in astronomy, scientific methodology, mathematics, primary work in the study of motion, as well as the most significant support of the Copernican theory of a heliocentric planetary system--in other words, the embodiment of th