CHIARAMONTI, Scipione (1565-1652). Opus … de Universo . Cologne: Jodocus Kalcoven, 1644.
CHIARAMONTI, Scipione (1565-1652). Opus … de Universo . Cologne: Jodocus Kalcoven, 1644. 4º (194 x 157mm). Engraved title, woodcut diagrams. (Large crease to one corner of title, title also affected by several worm tracks, 1.5mm. or less, running from margin into engraved area, spreading wormtracks in first two quires and in final leaf but causing little actual loss, generally browned and spotted as often.) Contemporary German roan, covers with central gilt arabesque within a roll-tool border, gilt edges (rubbed, lower cover wormed, gilt tarnished, new endpapers, lacks ties). FIRST EDITION. Chiaramonti spent the major part of his life in Cesena, a town under the temporal power of the Catholic Church, and his book is mainly of interest because as an Aristotelian he was one of Galileo's opponents. His arguments against the motion of the Earth and his interpretation of the novae are cited many times by Simplicio in the 1632 Dialogo , only to be exposed as false or ridiculous. However, Galileo did welcome Chiaramonti’s first work which argued against Grassi’s theory of comets. Houzeau and Lancaster 8717: ‘Uranographie, basée sur les principes faux que l’auteur a soutenus dans tous ses ouvrages’.
CHIARAMONTI, Scipione (1565-1652). Opus … de Universo . Cologne: Jodocus Kalcoven, 1644.
CHIARAMONTI, Scipione (1565-1652). Opus … de Universo . Cologne: Jodocus Kalcoven, 1644. 4º (194 x 157mm). Engraved title, woodcut diagrams. (Large crease to one corner of title, title also affected by several worm tracks, 1.5mm. or less, running from margin into engraved area, spreading wormtracks in first two quires and in final leaf but causing little actual loss, generally browned and spotted as often.) Contemporary German roan, covers with central gilt arabesque within a roll-tool border, gilt edges (rubbed, lower cover wormed, gilt tarnished, new endpapers, lacks ties). FIRST EDITION. Chiaramonti spent the major part of his life in Cesena, a town under the temporal power of the Catholic Church, and his book is mainly of interest because as an Aristotelian he was one of Galileo's opponents. His arguments against the motion of the Earth and his interpretation of the novae are cited many times by Simplicio in the 1632 Dialogo , only to be exposed as false or ridiculous. However, Galileo did welcome Chiaramonti’s first work which argued against Grassi’s theory of comets. Houzeau and Lancaster 8717: ‘Uranographie, basée sur les principes faux que l’auteur a soutenus dans tous ses ouvrages’.
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