7
Opere del Galilei.
3. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 116, no. 24, as above.
GALILEO GALILEI.
Opere di Galileo Galilei, divise in
quattro Tomi, in questa nuova Edizione accresciute di molte cose inedite. Tomo Primo [-Tomo Quarto Continente il Dialogo].
In
Padova:
mdccxliv
. Nella Stamperia del
Seminario. Appresso
Gio: Manfrè. Con Licenza de’ Superiori, e Privilegio. [1744.]
YA1103
4 vol. 4to. Vol. I, 352 leaves, title printed in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece by F. Zucchi, 1 engraved folded plate; vol. II, 285 leaves, vol. III, 245 leaves, vol. IV, 176 leaves; woodcut Phoenix device on all titles,
woodcut ornaments, illustrations and diagrams in the text; volume I in this copy has the cancelled leaf Rrrr
2 as well as the cancel Ssss
1.
Lalande, page 422.
Houzeau, page 131, no. 796.
Jefferson’s manuscript and the early Library of Congress catalogues which distinguish his library, call for 3. vol. 4to. The four volumes of this
edition were published at the same time, so that it seems possible that Jefferson had them bound for himself in three volumes.
He does not specify that a volume was missing.
Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642, Italian astronomer. The
Opere were originally published in Bologna in two volumes, quarto, in 1655, 6. This edition of 1744 is the first to include the
Dialogo (Vol. IV), for the original publication of which, in 1632, Galileo suffered from the Inquisition. This is mentioned by Jefferson
in the
Notes on the State of Virginia:
Government is just as infallible too when it fixes systems in physics. Galileo was sent to the inquisition for affirming that
the earth was a sphere: the government had declared it to be as flat as a trencher, and Galileo was obliged to abjure his
error.
This edition was edited by
Giuseppe Toaldo, 1719-1798, professor at the University of Padua.
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8
Morden’s introduction to astronomy.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 116, no. 11, as above.
MORDEN,
Robert.
An Introduction to Astronomy, Geography, Navigation, and other mathematical Sciences, made easie by the Description and Uses
of the Cœlestial and Terrestrial Globes. In Seven Parts . . . By Robert Morden.
London: Printed for
R. Morden, at the
Atlas in Cornhil; and
R. Smith, under the Piaza’s of the Royal Exchange,
1702.
First Edition. 8vo. 2 parts in 1, with separate signatures and pagination, 104 and 44 leaves, the second part with caption title
only for Geography and Navigation made easie . . . engraved plates of maps, charts and globes, woodcut diagrams.
Not in Lowndes.
Lalande, page 346.
Not in Houzeau.
In the second part,
Geography made easie, page 29 is headed
Of America, and gives a list in parallel columns of the “Parts or Countries, Cities or principal places, and Rivers” of America. At
the foot of the page is a list of the Islands, in which California, at that time thought to be an island, is included. The
double-page engraved map of the world by Morden at the beginning of the book shows California as an island.
Robert Morden, d. 1703, geographer, map and globe maker of London, was the author of a number of books on those subjects, and issued separately
many engraved maps of various countries.
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9
Wakeley’s Mariner’s compes.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 116, no. 13, but reading
Compass.
WAKELY,
Andrew.
The Mariner’s Compass Rectified; containing Tables, shewing the true Hour of the Day, the Sun being upon any Point of the
Compass: With the true Time of
