GHEZZI, NICOLO.- Fountains.-
Dell' origine delle fontane e dell' addolcimento dell acqua marina lettere scritte al sig. Conte N.N.
Venezia, Presso Simone Occhi, con licenza de' Superiori, 1742. 8vo. W. woodc. vign. on title, engr. front., 5 engr. pls. and a folding table. Fine contemp. vellum, 'Ghezzi D'Fontan' gilt tooled on spine within floral borders. (XVI, 404 pp.). (Small hole in half title repaired; verso title a 5 x 5 cm piece of paper mounted; some wormh. in upper paste down; some foxing; edges marbled in red and green.). Biogr. Universelle, VIII, 240: Nicolas Ghezzi, Italian member of the Societas Jesu, born in Domaso, near Lake Como, april 1685. He entered the Jesuit brotherhood in 1705 and applied himself primarily to the physical sciences. His treatise on the origin of fountains (Venice 1742) discusses hydraulics, tides, underground rivers, meteorology.: De Backer & Sommervogel III, 1377, nr. 1: Sommervogel, dict. des ouvrages anonymes, 1341: Riccardi I, 595:

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