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Borelli (Giovanni Alfonso) De vi percussionis liber,first edition, first issue, half-title, woodcut device on title, 5 engraved plates, damp-stain to first half, Earl of Macclesfield's bookplate and blind-stamps, Richard Short's manuscript inscription to the title, contemporary vellum, marked and mottled by damp, [Honeyman I 396; Riccardi I 159; Wellcome II 204], small 4to, Bologna, Giacomo Monti, 1667.

***Early work on the laws of percussion, derived from the work carried out by Galileo and intended primarily for a forthcoming study on the movement of animals. Galileo had first given consideration to this subject in the early 1590s, and had returned to it when writing the Two New Sciences..

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