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Deffensio Scipionis Claramontii Caesenatis ab oppvgnationibvs Fortvnii Liceti

Chiaramonti, Scipione, 1565-1652 · 1644 · Caesenae : Apvd Nerivm · 27 pictures

A 1644 Latin astronomical defence printed at Cesena by Scipione Chiaramonti, answering Fortunio Liceti on the earth's motion and comets, written for scholars of natural philosophy. Its pictures are plain geometric diagrams of circles with radii, chords, and intersecting lines labelled with capital letters, offering a designer clean, skeletal line work for technical or scientific graphics.

Liceti, Fortunio, 1577-1657. De terra unico centro motus singularum caeli particularum disputationes · Astronomy -- Early works to 1800 · Comets

Internet Archive · Fisher - University of Toronto · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library