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Item Details
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| Author: |
Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe |
| Title: |
De inaequalitatibus quas Saturnas et Jupiter sibi mutuo videntur inducere praesertim circa tempus coniunctionis |
| Place: |
Rome |
| Publisher: |
Salomoni |
| Date: |
1756 |
| Item # : |
128411 |
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| Sale Number |
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257 |
| Lot Number |
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9 |
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| Fine & Rare Books |
| Sale Date |
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02/10/2003 |
| Price realized |
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$ 287 |
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| Description: |
| a12, A-L8, M6. xxiv, 187 (including errata). With woodcut initials and ornaments, 4 folding engraved plates on full aprons. (8vo) 8¼x5¼, period half-sheep with decorated paper boards, spine gilt with morocco lettering-piece. First Edition. |
| A scarce treatise by the famous Jesuit astronomer and natural philosopher. A promoter of Newton's gravitational work, Boscovich's plates depict his calculations of the motion of Jupiter and Saturn. With an inkstamp and a few inconspicuous, marginal blindstamps from Stanford University Library. |
| Condition: |
| Some scuffing to extremities; scattered very pale foxing, nevertheless a very handsome copy. |
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