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  Opere inedite di Gio. Alfonso Borelli, delle Scuole Pie.
  
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• Variant Title:Opere inedite di Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
  
• Author/Creator:Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso, 1608-1679, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:William C. Gibson History of Medicine and Science Collection.
  
• Published/Created:[1679?]
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Memorial standardWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: Q113 .B67
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:v.1-2
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Science--Early works to 1800.
  
• Description:2 volumes ; 19 cm
  
• Notes:Manuscript (handwritten, in cursive script) dealing with natural and physical sciences. The first volume consists of two sections (leaves 7-41, and leaves 61-129) both containing scientific writings ; leaves 42-60 are blank. The second volume consists of two sections (leaves 7-44 and leaves 67-84) both containing correspondence ; leaves 45-66 are blank. In both volumes, initial letters at the beginning of numerous paragraphs are blank, and diagrams intended to accompany parts of the text are absent. The work has been cited by researchers for its relevance to the invention of the heliostat.
  On spine of volume 1: "Tom. I-II" ; on spine of volume 2: "Tom. III".
  
• Cited in:Iter Italicum. Vol. 3, Alia itinera I, Australia to Germany / Paul Oskar Kristeller. Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1983 p. 148
  Archive for the History of Exact Sciences vol. 10, pp. 329-341