Dialogues concerning Two New Sciences .Translated from the Italian and Latin into English . with an introduction by Antonio Favaro of the University of Padua.

GALILEI, Galileo; Henry CREW and Alfonso DE SALVIO (translators).

Edité par Date d'édition : 1914

New York: Macmillan. 1914. 8vo. Original green cloth-backed boards, paper labels to spine; pp. xxvi, 300, with frontispiece portrait of Galileo, reproduction of title page of first edition, diagrams in text, initials, head-, and tailpieces; boards a little sunned, paper labels lightly toned, very good; presentation inscription "To Edwin H. Hall with the kind regards of Henry Crew, 12.vi.1914" in ink to front free endpaper (see below).First edition of this translation, a presentation copy inscribed by the translator Henry Crew to his fellow physicist Edwin Hall.This is the third English translation of Galileo's Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze (1638), following those of 1665 and 1730. Galileo's final work, the treatise presents his thinking on physics in the form of a dialogue. It examines the resistance of solid bodies to fracture, the behaviour of bodies in motion, the nature of acceleration, and projectile motion.Henry Crew (1859-1953) was an American physicist and astronomer, and Fayerweather Professor of Physics at Northwestern University from 1892 to 1933. Alfonso De Salvio (1873-1938), his collaborator, was an Italian-American scholar of Italian language and literature, on the faculty of Northwestern University between 1905 and 1928, and later Chair of Italian Language and Literature at Brown University until his death.Provenance: From the library of Edwin Herbert Hall (1855-1938), American physicist and discoverer of the Hall effect. A prolific researcher and author of physics textbooks and laboratory manuals, Hall was appointed Professor of Physics at Harvard University in 1895, succeeding John Trowbridge in the Rumford Chair of Physics in 1914. N° de réf. du vendeur 2124006

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Titre : Dialogues concerning Two New Sciences ....
Date d'édition : 1914
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Signé : Signé par l'auteur
Edition : Edition originale