GIO ALFONSO BORELLI
De VI Percussionibus, et motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus, sive ...

GIO ALFONSO BORELLI
De VI Percussionibus, et motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus, sive introductiones & illustrationes Physico-matematicae ... ad opus ejus intelligendum De Motu Animalium. Una cum ejusdem Auctoris responsionibus in animadversiones Ill. Doct. V. D. Stephani de Angelis in Librum de VI Percussionis. Leide, Petrum Vander AA, 1686.

4to (20.5 cm); 2 parts in one volume, in an attractive contemporary dark calf, gilt on boards with golden fillets and large central fleuron; colored edges; gilt spine with compartments, inside in very good condition. Engraved frontispiece at the beginning, each part with own title-page. De Percussionibus: pp. (16), 262, (22) with 6 folding engraved plates; De motionibus: pp. (4), 360, (32) with 14 folding engraved plates.
First collected edition of these two important works: De vi percussionibus and De motionibus naturalibus (first edited separately in 1667 and 1670), with an interesting catalogue of the scientific publications of the printer.