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MONTANARI, Geminiano. Speculazioni Fisiche... sopra gli effetti di quei vetri temperrati. Bologna, Manolessi, 1671 4to, mm. 183x130. Hardback binding. Pp. 12, 76, 1 folded table card. Frontispiece trimmed and reinforced at inner margin, moisture stains at end of volume. First and only rare edition on glass. The book is written in the form of two epistles addressed to the Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinand II and to the Venetian patrician Girolamo Savorgnano in which the various glass processes in the workshops of Murano and other European factories are illustrated. The fold-out table illustrates 10 figures. Geminiano Montanari (1633 - 1687), an Italian astronomer and mathematician, wrote this work because of a dispute with Donato Rossetti, a follower of Galilei, who had published a paper on the same subject a short time earlier.Gamba 2017: "These are two letters, one directed to Grand Duke Ferdinando II, the other to co. Girolamo Savorgnano del Monte, a nobleman from Veneto. "Riccardi I/2, 171-172: "Rare" and Piantanida (1588): "Rare pamphlet." 4to, mm. 183x130. Cardboard binding. pp. 12, 76, 1 engraved folded plate. Titlepage trimmed and reinforced at inner margin, dampstains at end of volume. First and only rare edition on glass. The book is written in the form of two epistles addressed to the Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinand II and to the Venetian patrician Girolamo Savorgnano in which the various glass processes in the Murano workshops and other European factories are illustrated. The folded plate illustrates 10 figures. Geminiano Montanari (1633 - 1687), an Italian astronomer and mathematician, wrote this work due to a dispute with Donato Rossetti, a follower of Galilei, who had published a paper on the same subject shortly before.Gamba 2017: "These are two letters, one directed to the Grand Duke Ferdinand II, the other to the co. Girolamo Savorgnano del Monte, a Venetian nobleman. "Riccardi I/2, 171-172: "Rare" and Piantanida (1588): "Rare pamphlet."

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