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Physics. COMMANDINO. Liber de Centro Gravitatis
Physics. COMMANDINO. Liber de Centro Gravitatis
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COMMANDINO, Federico. Liber de Centro Gravitatis Solidorum. Bologna, Alessandro Benacci, 1565
4to small, mm. 210x150; half vellum binding, title written on the back; ll. 4 nn. , 47, 1 b.; Initials figured, many geometric woodcuts within the text. Stamp of the library extinct on the frontispiece and the first card. Fine copy.
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Rare first edition. It is one of the few original scientific work of Commandino, an elaborate system of theorems and proofs to determine the center of gravity of solid bodies of all shapes and sizes: among the new results obtained, the center of gravity of the pyramid and the paraboloid.Honeyman: “An original treatise on the centre of gravity of solid bodies”. Riccardi, I, 42, n. 5, note; Honeyman, n. 739. Cfr. P. D. Napolitani, Nicchie per una nuova scienza.Scuole e corti nell’Italia del Rinascimento, 2008.
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