Author: MARTIN, Beniamino (1704-1782):
Title: Gramatica delle scienze filosofiche, o breve analisi della filosofia moderna appoggiata alle sperienze. Tradotta dall'inglese in francese, e dal francese in italiano. Prima edizione Napoletana.
Description: Napoli, Vincenzo Orsino (for) Domenico Terres, 1771, in-8vo, 4 leaves, title printed in red and black + 343 p., browning + 2 folding tables + 22 engraved folding plates, light foxing, vellum binding, lightly mostly duststained, lower cover with three hw. calculations and small strip of vellum torn off its edge. ¶ New Italian edition of a much esteemed and popular English work of vulgarized science, translated from the French. The plates show planets and orbits, the solar system of Copernic, gravity specific to mass and fluids, machines, instruments, and experiments, observations through the microscope, a map showing winds and monsons, etc. The first English edition was published in 1735. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. DSB IX/141-142; cf. Quérard V/576 (ed. in French 1749, 1764 and 1777).

Keywords: natural science, natural sciences scnat exact science, exact sciences sciences astronomy astronomie physics physique biology biologie meteorologie météorologie Alfano, G.M.