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Torricelli (Evangelista) Lezioni Accademiche...,edited by Tommaso Bonaventuri, half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait after Pietro Anichini, engraved printer's device on title, 2 small woodcut vignettes, woodcut decorations and initials, contemporary paste-boards, [Norman II, 2088; Riccardi II 544], 4to, Florence, Jacopo Guiducci, 1715.
***First edition of Torricelli's twelve unpublished lectures, delivered to the Accademia della Crusca, the Studio Fiorentino, and the Academy of Drawing. The lectures relate mainly to physics, and include discussions on impact, wind and military architecture. Bonaventuri's preface contains a biography of Torricelli and a good overview of his work; it also reprints Torricelli's letters on the barometric experiment..
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