Donato Rossetti Composizioni e passioni de' vetri, overo dimostrazioni fisico-matematiche delle gocciole, e de' fili del vetro, che rotto in qualsiasi

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  Physik - Naturphilosophie

  Rossetti, Donato

  Composizioni e passioni de' vetri, overo dimostrazioni fisico-matematiche delle gocciole, e de' fili del vetro, che rotto in qualsiasi parte tutto quanto si stritola. Mit Holzschnitt-Figuren u. Ill. im Text. Livorno, Bonfigli, 1671. 10 Bll., 96 S. 8°. Pgt. d. Zt. (berieben u. fleckig, leicht wasserrandig).

  Riccardi ii, 395 1 1671 - Seltene erste Ausgabe dieser Abhandlung über die Eigenschaften vom Glas und korpuskularen Naturphilosophie. Der Mathematiker Donato Rossetti (1633-1688) gehörte zum Kreis der "Galiläer" in Pisa und war der eifrigste Verfechter des Atomismus. - Innengelenke angeplatzt. Etwas gebräunt. Vorsatz mit Eintragung von alter Hand.

  Physics. - With woodcut diagrams and ills. within text. - Rare first edition of this corpuscular natural philosophy, to include Francesco Redi's Osservazioni intorno a quelle Gocciole e Fili di Vetro, che rotte in qualsiasi parte tutte quante si stritolano. Rossetti's teacher, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, presented an elaborate mechanical corpuscular theory of matter in "De motibus naturalibus" (1667). In Rossetti's own theory of matter the shape and size of particleswas subordinated to the central role of force or energy. The "Antignome", in which Rossetti affirmed that capillary action could be explained by the behaviour of atoms to attract or repel each other was given no place, The dispute between the two mathematicians over the phenomena of capillary action unfortunately spread to other subjects such as the centre of gravity of solids, the validity of the principle of Archimedes, and the behaviour of tempered glass drops. Their inconciliable differences are said to represent the profound divergence in thought among the second generation of the Galilean school (see DBI, vol. 75, 2011). - Contemporary vellum (rubbed and soiled, little waterstained). - Hinges cracking. Some browning. Endpaper with old handwritten entry.

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