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ACCADEMIA DEL CIMENTO
Essayes of Natural Experiments Made in the Academie del Cimento, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION IN ENGLISH, Benjamin Alsop, 1684

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ACCADEMIA DEL CIMENTO

Essayes of Natural Experiments Made in the Academie del Cimento, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by Richard Waller, imprimatur leaf, engraved allegorical frontispiece by Waller, 19 engraved plates of apparatus (plate 15 loose, with manuscript annotation touching image), eighteenth century calf, rubbed [Wing A161], 4to (230 x 165mm.), Benjamin Alsop, 1684

Footnotes

Richard Waller's translation of Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell'Accademia del Cimento (1667) was sponsored by the Royal Society of London. The Accademia, founded in Florence in 1657 (three years before the Royal Society), was established to perform experiments intended to advance the work of Galileo. The work includes descriptions of the first true thermometers and hygrometers, experiments on the velocity of sound, the expansion of water on freezing, and Toricelli's experiment on the barometer and air pressure - which was a major influence on Robert Boyle's New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of Air.

Provenance: "James Aitkin his book", eighteenth century inscription on plate 15. See illustration overleaf.

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Rebacked preserving most of original spine

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