BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso (translated by Paul MAQUET)

Borelli's 'On the Movement of Animals'. On the Force of Percussion. [Together with] ... On the Natural Motions resulting from Gravity

Cham, Springer, 2015 (first thus).

Octavo, two volumes, xxxviii, 220; and xiv, 292 pages, with numerous illustrations.

Pictorial papered boards; tiny bump and split to the head of the front joint of the second volume; essentially a fine set.

Numbers 37 and 38 of the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science series. The volumes comprise translations of Borelli's 'De vi percussionis' (1667) and 'De motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus liber' (1670), translated from the 1686 Leiden edition. Despite the title of this set, it does not contain a translation of 'De motu animalium'. [2 items].

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