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Title: WITHDRAWN Risposta alle Opposizioni del S. Lodovico delle Colombe, e del S. Vincenzio de Grazia, Contro al Trattato del Sig. Galileo Galilei delle cose che stanno sù l'Acqua, ò che in quella si muouono. All'illvstriss. Sig. Enea Piccolomini Aragona, Signore de Sticciano, &c. Nella quale si contengono molte considerazioni filosofiche remote dalle vulgate opinioni Author: Galilei, Galileo Place: Florence Publisher: Cosimo Giunti Date: 1615 Description: [2], 319 (i.e. 335), [5] pp. *², A-X8, Y². Woodcut devices on title-page and final leaf. (4to) 8¾x6¼, period vellum. First Edition of one of Galileo's rarest and most significant works, covering both dynamics and hydraulics. This work contains what is perhaps the first printed account of the famous experiment conducted at the Tower of Pisa, in which it was shown that the force of gravity is a constant. Though at times catalogued under Benedetto Castelli as the author, the work is accepted by scholars of science as having been written by Galileo himself, although he is listed as the translator on the title-page. Castelli did write the introduction. The manuscript, in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale (Florence), is largely in Galileo's hand. This copy has been expertly restored, with the vellum covers repaired, the contents washed and resewn, new endpapers. There is an old monastical library stamp to the title-page, and the trace from another which has been removed. *2 misbound after A8; it contains the dedication. Several leaves in signature G misbound but all present. There are a number of errors in the pagination. Lot Amendments Condition: A very nice, restored copy, with minor paper loss to a few of the margins. Item number: 206017