Galilei, Galileo. Dialogue ... Over the two greatest... Lot 28

Galilei, Galileo. Dialogue ... Over the two greatest systems of the world Ptolemaic, and Copernican. Florence, Giovanni Battista Landini, 1632. In 4° (224 x 157 mm); [8], 458, [32] pages. Typographical mark on title page, errata editorial slip pasted on page 92, addition of handwritten letter "H" in diagram on page 192, 31 figures and diagrams in text,errata corrigesulla on paper Ff6 (missing antiporta, small restoration to white corner of paper C5, slight halo to white margin of last 25 endpapers, small defect to lower corner of first 5 papers, sporadic browning). Coeval bindings in bazzana with frame and small corner fleurons to plates, phytomorphic friezes and title in gold on gusset to spine, gilt and chiseled cuts (small lack to upper cap). Partially bearded copy in handsome binding of this first edition. The work represents one of the milestones in the history of science. Cinti 89; Norman 858; Riccardi I, 511; PMM 128: Written under the didialog form, the work "was designed both as an appeal to the great public and as an escape from silence [...] it is a masterly polemic for the new science. It displays all the great discoveries in the heavens which the ancients had ignored; it inveighs against the sterility, wilfulness, and ignorance of those who defend their systems; it revels in the simplicity of Copernican thought and, above all, it teaches that the movement of the earth makes sense in philosophy, that is, in physics [...] TheDialogo, more than any other work, made the heliocentric system a commonplace."