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BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso (1608-1679). De motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus, liber . Reggio Calabria: Domenico Ferri 1670.
BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso (1608-1679). De motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus, liber . Reggio Calabria: Domenico Ferri 1670. 4° (241 x 175mm). Half-title, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut diagrams in text. (Tiny wormhole to top margin of some leaves, light marginal staining to 2X1-2X2.) Contemporary boards, manuscript title on spine (light soiling). Provenance : Francesco Maria Nardini (ownership inscriptions dated 1672 and annotations). FIRST EDITION . This companion volume to De vi percussionis is devoted particularly to the study of liquids. Borelli 'argues against positive levity, discusses the Torricellian experiment, takes up siphons, pumps, and the nature of fluidity, tries to understand the expansion of water while freezing, and deals with fermentation and other chemical processes' (DSB). Like De vi percussionis , this was intended as a preliminary to his final work De motu animalium (1679). Borelli had initially demonstrated his findings to the Accademia del Cimento in Florence. In 1667, however, he passed through Naples and repeated a number of his experiments for the Neapolitan Accademia degli Investiganti. As a result, the secretary of the Investiganti, the Calabrese nobleman Andrea Concublet, arranged for the publication of this work. Carli-Favaro 78; Cinti 291; Riccardi I 159.