GALILEI, Galileo. Dialogo ... In questa Seconda Impressione accresciuto di una Lettera dello stesso, non più stampata, e di varj Trattati di più Autori, i quali si veggono nel fine del Libro.Firenze [i. e. Napoli], s.n.t., 1710

4to, mm. 240x170; Contemporary full vellum binding, title written on the spine; pp. 12 nn., 458, 30 nn., [2], 83. Title page in red and black ink with printer's device, woodcut illustrations within the text.

Rare and important second edition. The first edition had been placed on the Index immediately after its publication, in 1632: there were been other Italian editions until this 1710, published with a false place of publication and edited by Lorenzo Ceccarelli who signed with the ' anagram Cellenio Zacclori. This edition also contains the first edition of Galileo's letter to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, beginning with its title after the Dialogue indexes. In this long letter, written in 1615 but never published in Italy, Galileo supports' ineligibility theological interference in purely scientific questions.

Drake: “Galileo argued that neither the Bible nor nature could speak falsely and that the investigation of nature was the province of the scientist, while the reconciliation of scientific facts with the language of the Bible was that of the theologian.” Follows the letter on the opinion of 'Pittagorici, and Copernicus. The mobility of the earth, and stability of the sun by Paolo Foscarini. This letter was printed in Naples in 1615 and immediately condemned by the Inquisition: the printer was arrested, all copies were confiscated and burned in 1616. The other texts that close the volume are: the preface to Kepler's astronomy nova of 1609, the Inquisition ruling against Galileo and his recantation of 1633.

Cinti 168; Gamba 476; Riccardi I, 512; Waller, Bib. Walleriana, 12044; cf. Printing and the Mind of Man 128; Stillman Drake, D. S. B., 2008.

Lievi bruniture, buon esemplare./Slight brownings, nice specimen.