Galilei (Galileo) Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno
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Galilei (Galileo) Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solarie loro accidenti comprese in tre lettere scritte all'illustrissimo signor Marco Velseri Linceo, woodcut printer's device of the Lincei on title, full-page engraved portrait of Galileo, 38 full-page engravings of sunspots, 5 engraved plates of the satellites of Jupiter, one folding plate, 8 woodcut and typographic diagrams, woodcut initials, contemporary ink inscriptions on title, later calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, [Riccardi I 509], small 4to, Rome, Giacomo Mascardi, 1613.
***The first edition of Galileo's first published endorsement on the Copernican model. The work also includes Galileo's first written account of his observations of the phases of Venus and the mysteries of Saturn. His specific endorsement of the Copernican model foreshadowed many of his later theories and their political and religious consequences: "I tell you that this planet also, perhaps no less than horned Venus, agrees admirably with the great Copernican system on which propitious winds now universally are seen to blow" (Stillman, Drake's translation)..
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