CAPRA, BALTHASAURUS. - GALILEO GALILEI.
Usus et Fabrica Circum cuiusdam proportionis, per quem omnia fere tum Euclidis, tum Mathematicorum omnium problemata facili negotio resonuntur. Bobonia (Bologna), H.H. de Duccÿijs, 1655. Small 4to. (8), 48 pp.
Later modest half-vellum. First three leaves a bit browned, otherwise fine. Many wood-engr. illustr. in the text.
¶ Capra (1580-1626) is said to have been a good philosopher, doctor and astronomer, but is today only remembered for being Galilei's opponent, who plagiarized G.'s first publication "Le operazioni del compasso geometrico e militare". The present work is the second edition of the mentioned plagiarization of the treatise on the proportional compass, and is actually nothing more than a translation into Latin of G.'s work, containing manevolent insinuations against the original author. "Because of the close analogies with Galileo's "Il compasso," which had appeared a few months before, this book was clamorously condemned to sequestration and destruction, but for the same reason it was fully analyzed by Galileo's students and included in all editions of his works, beginning with the one published at Bologna in 1655." (D.S.B.). -This is the first printing after the condemnation and destruction.
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