ACCADEMIA DEL CIMENTO Saggi di Naturali Esperienze fatte nel

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ACCADEMIA DEL CIMENTO. Saggi di Naturali Esperienze fatte nell'Accademia del Cimento . . . Seconda Edizione. Engraved portrait of the dedicatee, Grand Duke Cosimo III of Tuscany, and 75 full-page engravings of laboratory apparatus. [8], 269, [23] pages, including half-title and final blank. Folio, 348x233 mm, later panelled calf in period style, joints and cover edges worn; few minor marginal dampstains at beginning, occasional light offsetting from the illustrations, repaired clean tear in 2L4, otherwise a clean, wide-margined copy. Florence: Gio. Filippo Cecchi, 1691

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First published in 1666, an account of experiments and discoveries made by the first scientific society, the Accademia del Cimento in Florence, which was active from 1657 to 1667. Its ten members included Vincenzo Viviani, Giovanni Borelli, Nicolaus Steno, and Francesco Redi. Among the subjects of their investigations were air pressure, the speed of sound, radiant heat, phosphorescence, the compressibility of water and its expansion on freezing, and the plane of oscillation of a pendulum. Dibner, Heralds of Science 82; Norman 486 (original edition); Middleton 2 (this edition).