Torricelli (Evangelista) Lezioni Accademiche, first edition, edited by Tommaso Bonaventuri, half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait after Pietro Anichini, title with engraved device of the Accademia della Crusca, with imprimatur leaf (c10), woodcuts, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, occasional extremely faint foxing, contemporary vellum, toned, yapp edges, edges stained black, housed within modern clam-shell box, [Norman II, 2088], 4to, Florence, for Jacopo Guiducci, 1715.*** A fine copy of these twelve posthumously published lectures by Torricelli, Galileo's successor as Professor of mathematics at Florence, delivered to the Accademia della Crusca, the Studio Fiorentino, and the Academy of Drawing. The lectures relate mainly to physics, and include discussions on impact, wind and military architecture. Bonaventuri's preface contains a biography of Torricelli and a good overview of his work; it also reprints Torricelli's letters on the barometric experiment.