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LANA TERZI, Francis. Prodromo overo saggio di alcune inventioni nuove premesso all' arte maestra. Brescia, Rizzardi, 1670 Folio. 310x230 mm. Coeval binding in rustic hardback. Pages (8), 252. 20 full-page copper-engraved plates at end. Large woodcut capilettera and endpapers. On title page oval ex libris in black ink with initials "C B". Spots and traces of use to binding, internally sporadic light foxing and some traces of use, good copy with wide margins. Rare first edition of this pioneering work in aviation history. Lana provides an extensive description of inventions and technological innovations. Among others we find: microscopes, hygrometers, clocks, water pumps, a new type of thermometer, a method of cipher writing, a system for teaching the blind to write, and a method of producing colors. The most significant is that relating to the construction of a ''ship, which chimneys sustained above the air.'' All its construction details are described and it is illustrated by the famous table. An analysis of it appeared, in 1679, in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, and G.W. Leibniz described it in detail in Hypothesis physica nova (Mainz 1671) and then discussed it in his correspondence with Lana Terzi. Dibner: "the earliest concept of flight based on aerostatic principles." Norman: "While Lana apparently originated the method of reducing air density in a vessel by heating it, the implications of this phenomenon in relation to flight were not fully understood until the advent of the Montgolfier brothers a century later" Riccardi: "Rare and valuable work." Folio.310x230. Contemporary sewing binding. Pages (8), 252. 20 full-page copperplate plates at the end. Large woodcut Initials and tail-pieces. On the title page, an oval ex-libris in black ink with the initials "C B". Stains and tears to the binding, internally occasional slight foxing and some signs of wear, good copy with wide margins. Rare first edition of this pioneering work in the history of aeronautics. Lana provides an extensive description of inventions and technological innovations. Among others we find: microscopes, hygrometers, clocks, water pumps, a new type of thermometer, a method of cipher writing, a system for teaching the blind to write, a method for producing colors. The most significant is that relating to the construction of a ''ship, which chimneys are supported above the air.'' All the construction details are described and it is illustrated by the famous plate. An analysis of it appeared, in 1679, in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, and G.W. Leibniz described it in detail in the Hypothesis physica nova (Mainz 1671) and then dealt with it in his correspondence with Lana Terzi. Dibner: "the earliest concept of flight based on aerostatic principles." Norman: "While Lana apparently originated the method of reducing air density in a vessel by heating it, the implications of this phenomenon in relation to flight were not fully understood until the advent of the Montgolfier brothers a century later" Riccardi: "Rare and valuable work."

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LANA TERZI, Francis. Prodromo overo saggio di alcune inventi

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