POLACCO, Giorgio (fl. 1644). Anticopernicus catholicus, sev de terae statione, et de solis motv, contra systema Copernicarum, catholicae assertiones. Venice: apud Guerilios, 1644.
POLACCO, Giorgio (fl. 1644). Anticopernicus catholicus, sev de terae statione, et de solis motv, contra systema Copernicarum, catholicae assertiones. Venice: apud Guerilios, 1644. 2 works bound in one, 4 o (195 x 135 mm). Engraved illustration on title and two other engraved illustrations in text. 19th-century vellum; quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : Gilbert R. Redgrave (bookplate; note on front free endpaper); Robert Honeyman (bookplate; his sale part VI, Sotheby's London, 10 November 1980, lot 2508). FIRST EDITION. This is an important anti-Copernican work. As a Jesuit committed to church doctrine, Polacco was among the most vehement opponents of Copernican and Galilean theory. The work gives and account of Galileo's "trial by the Inquisition, and his abjuration of his heresies pp. 68-76" (Redgrave), after publication of the Dialogo in 1632. In 195 "assertiones" Polacco "proofs" in his "Catholic Anti-Copernican" that the Galileo and Copernicus were wrong, and that the sun revolves around the earth. The engravings in the text is an early illustration of the moon and of sun spots. Cinti 113. [ Bound with ]: FRANCISCUS TORRENSIS. De sola lectione legis, & prophetarum Iudaeis cum Mosaico ritu, & cultu permittenda. Rome: V. & A. Dorico, 1555. 4 o. Woodcut vignette on title and woodcut printer's device on last leaf.
POLACCO, Giorgio (fl. 1644). Anticopernicus catholicus, sev de terae statione, et de solis motv, contra systema Copernicarum, catholicae assertiones. Venice: apud Guerilios, 1644.
POLACCO, Giorgio (fl. 1644). Anticopernicus catholicus, sev de terae statione, et de solis motv, contra systema Copernicarum, catholicae assertiones. Venice: apud Guerilios, 1644. 2 works bound in one, 4 o (195 x 135 mm). Engraved illustration on title and two other engraved illustrations in text. 19th-century vellum; quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : Gilbert R. Redgrave (bookplate; note on front free endpaper); Robert Honeyman (bookplate; his sale part VI, Sotheby's London, 10 November 1980, lot 2508). FIRST EDITION. This is an important anti-Copernican work. As a Jesuit committed to church doctrine, Polacco was among the most vehement opponents of Copernican and Galilean theory. The work gives and account of Galileo's "trial by the Inquisition, and his abjuration of his heresies pp. 68-76" (Redgrave), after publication of the Dialogo in 1632. In 195 "assertiones" Polacco "proofs" in his "Catholic Anti-Copernican" that the Galileo and Copernicus were wrong, and that the sun revolves around the earth. The engravings in the text is an early illustration of the moon and of sun spots. Cinti 113. [ Bound with ]: FRANCISCUS TORRENSIS. De sola lectione legis, & prophetarum Iudaeis cum Mosaico ritu, & cultu permittenda. Rome: V. & A. Dorico, 1555. 4 o. Woodcut vignette on title and woodcut printer's device on last leaf.
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