Mathematical collections and translations : the first tome. In two parts
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Type of record: Book
Title: Mathematical collections and translations : the first tome. In two parts
Other titles: The systeme of the world in four dialogues; The ancient and modern doctrine of the holy fathers; Epistle of the reverend father Paolo Antonio Foscarini; The mensuration of running waters
Classmark: BC Sc quarto SAL
Creator(s): Salusbury, Thomas
Additional creator(s): Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642) (Other); Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630) (Other); Lopez de Zuñiga, Diego (Other); Foscarini, Paolo Antonio (1580-1616) (Other); Castelli, Benedetto (1643) (Other); Corsini, Ottavio (1592-1642) (Other)
Publisher: Printed by W. Leybourne
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1661
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 parts in 1 volume, 4 folded plate
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/286778
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002324479705181
Description
Collation: pt. 1: 8 p. l., 503, [24] p.; pt. 2: 7 p. l., 118, [5] p.
Half-title: Mathematical collections and translations: in two tomes.
The work was published in two volumes, 1661-65. It is rarely found complete, as most of the copies of vol. 2 were destroyed in the Great Fire of London.
The several works comprising pt. 1 are paged in one sequence. The "Systeme", the "Doctrine of holy fathers" and the "Epistle of P.A. Foscarini" have individual title-pages.
Pt. 2 has separate pagination. On the title-page to this part, the words "The second tome. The second part" should read "The first tome. The second part." The "Mensuration" has a separate title-page.
Contents: pt.1: The systeme of the world [i.e. the Dialogo]... by Galileus Galileus ... Inglished ... by Thomas Salusbury; The ancient and modern doctrine of holy fathers ... concerning the rash citation of ... Sacred Scripture, in conclusions meerly natural ... by Galilæo Galilæi ... rendred into English ... by Thomas Salusbury; An abstract of ... Johannis Keplerus ... his Introduction upon Mars [i.e. the Introduction to the Astronomia nova]; An abstract of some passages in ... Didacus à Stunica ... upon Job; An epistle of Paolo Antonio Foscarini ... concerning ... the mobility of the earth ... Englished ... by Thomas Salusburie; Table ... of ... the first part of the first tome. -- pt. 2: Of the mensuration of running waters ... by Benedetto Castelli. Englished from the third ... edition, with the addition of a second book ... by Thomas Salusbury.
Indexed in: Wing S-517 (tome 1 only).
Additional description
The preliminaries are bound in the following order: p. [i], title-page to the Systeme [iii]-[iv], Galileo's dedication, [v]-[vi], Salusbury's dedication to Sir John Denham (of the collection as a whole) [vii]-[viii], to the Reader [ix]-[x], Galileo's introduction to the Systeme. Of these 5ff., the first is signed *2, and the fourth and fifth *2 and *3. The Contents of the first and second tomes (1 f., signed *3) are misbound after the Table to pt. 1 of tome 1. Wanting: the half-title and general title-page to the tome, the errata leaf. Also wanting are the four folding plates, but these have been supplied, as full-page plates, in ms. (? eighteenth century). Charles Singer's copy, with his signature on the free endpaper at the front. Signature 'John Ussher', ca. 1700, on Systeme title-page. Spine lettered: SYSTEM OF THE WORLD
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