GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Dialogo... sopre i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano . Florence: Gian Battista Landini, 1632. 4 o (209 x 152 mm). Etched frontispiece by Stefano della Bella (state III/IV, de Vesme no. 905), italic type, shoulder notes in roman type, printer's woodcut device on title-page, 31 woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, woodcut initials, type ornament head- and tail-pieces and factotum initials, errata leaf Ff6, with the printed correction slip pasted in margin of F6v (p. 92) as usual. (Frontispiece trimmed to platemark and mounted, lacks final blank, small marginal paper flaws on F8 and G3 just touching shoulder notes, few small marginal wormtracks, three small holes on M8, signature Bb bound out of sequence, inner forme of Hh printed slightly out of register, some light browning and foxing.) 18th-century vellum over pasteboard; quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : College at Scansia (inscription on front pastedown) -- purchased from The Book Block, Cos Cob, 30 September 1985. FIRST EDITION of Galileo's celebrated defense of the Copernican view of the solar system. Galileo's formal use of the dialogue allowed him to explore his Copernican theories fully within the rubric of the "equal and impartial discussion" required by Pope Urban VIII. The work "was designed both as an appeal to the great public and as an escape from silence... it is a masterly polemic for the new science. It displays all the great discoveries in the heavens which the ancients had ignored; it inveighs against the sterility, willfulness, and ignorance of those who defend their systems; it revels in the simplicity of Copernican thought and, above all, it teaches that the movement of the earth makes sense in philosophy, that is, in physics... The Dialogo , more than any other work, made the heliocentric system a commonplace" (PMM). Pope Urban VIII was not so swayed, and immediately convened a special commission to examine the book and make recommendations. In casting the Pope as the simple-minded Aristotelian Simplicius, Galileo brought upon himself arrest, trial by the Inquisition and life imprisonment. The sentence was commuted to permanent house arrest, while the printing of any of his works was forbidden. The Dialogo remained on the Index until 1832. Carli and Favaro, p.28; Cinti 89; Dibner Heralds of Science 8; Grolier/Horblit 18c; Norman 858; PMM 128; Riccardi I.511; Wellcome 2647a.
GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Dialogo... sopre i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano . Florence: Gian Battista Landini, 1632. 4 o (209 x 152 mm). Etched frontispiece by Stefano della Bella (state III/IV, de Vesme no. 905), italic type, shoulder notes in roman type, printer's woodcut device on title-page, 31 woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, woodcut initials, type ornament head- and tail-pieces and factotum initials, errata leaf Ff6, with the printed correction slip pasted in margin of F6v (p. 92) as usual. (Frontispiece trimmed to platemark and mounted, lacks final blank, small marginal paper flaws on F8 and G3 just touching shoulder notes, few small marginal wormtracks, three small holes on M8, signature Bb bound out of sequence, inner forme of Hh printed slightly out of register, some light browning and foxing.) 18th-century vellum over pasteboard; quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : College at Scansia (inscription on front pastedown) -- purchased from The Book Block, Cos Cob, 30 September 1985. FIRST EDITION of Galileo's celebrated defense of the Copernican view of the solar system. Galileo's formal use of the dialogue allowed him to explore his Copernican theories fully within the rubric of the "equal and impartial discussion" required by Pope Urban VIII. The work "was designed both as an appeal to the great public and as an escape from silence... it is a masterly polemic for the new science. It displays all the great discoveries in the heavens which the ancients had ignored; it inveighs against the sterility, willfulness, and ignorance of those who defend their systems; it revels in the simplicity of Copernican thought and, above all, it teaches that the movement of the earth makes sense in philosophy, that is, in physics... The Dialogo , more than any other work, made the heliocentric system a commonplace" (PMM). Pope Urban VIII was not so swayed, and immediately convened a special commission to examine the book and make recommendations. In casting the Pope as the simple-minded Aristotelian Simplicius, Galileo brought upon himself arrest, trial by the Inquisition and life imprisonment. The sentence was commuted to permanent house arrest, while the printing of any of his works was forbidden. The Dialogo remained on the Index until 1832. Carli and Favaro, p.28; Cinti 89; Dibner Heralds of Science 8; Grolier/Horblit 18c; Norman 858; PMM 128; Riccardi I.511; Wellcome 2647a.
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