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[Grassi (Orazio)] Libra astronomica ac philosophic
[Grassi (Orazio)] Libra astronomica ac philosophic
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[Grassi (Orazio)] Libra astronomica ac philosophica qua Galilaei Galilaei opiniones de cometis...,title within typographic border with engraved vignette depicting a comet, woodcut illustrations, diagrams and initials, later vellum-backed marbled boards, [Riccardi I, 638], small 4to, Perugia, Ex Typographia Marci Naccarini, 1619.

***First and extremely rare edition of Grassi's attack on Galileo's theory of comets, which had been expressed under his disciple Mario Guiducci's name in his Discorso delle comete of 1619. The work perpetuated the "controversy of the comets", leading to a flurry of printed attacks between the scientists, culminating in Galileo's Il Saggiatore..

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[Grassi (Orazio)] Libra astronomica ac philosophic

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