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Galileo Galilei
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Mathematical Discourses concerning Two New Sciences relating to Mechanicks and Local Motion, in Four Dialogues. I. Of the Resistance of Solids against Fraction. II. Of the Cause of their Coherence. III. Of Local Motion, viz. Equable, and naturall Accelerate. IV. Of Violent Motion, or of Projects. With an Appendix concerning the Center of Gravity of Solid Bodies. Done into English from the Italian, by Tho. Weston, late Master, and now publish'd by John Weston, present Master, of the Academy at Greenwich.
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London / 1730
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A handsome example of the second English translation of Galileo's last work; the first translation appeared in Thomas Salusbury's 1665 Mathematical Collections, which was largely lost in the 1666 Great Fire of London. Even in the early 18th-century the Salusbury translation was scarce enough that Weston saw fit to redo it; today, the 1665 translation is known in not more than ten examples:

These Select Pieces of our Excellent Author were, many Years ago, publish'd in an Englihs Dress by Mr. Salusbury, in the second Tome of his Mathematical Collections and Translation; which is now become very scarce: Whereupon a new Translation of them being much desired and promoted... In Consequence whereof I now make publick a Second Translation (done from the Elzevir Edition of the Italian); and, as it is meerly such, I conceive there need nothing more be added on my Part. - "The Translator's Preface", page v

Thomas Weston (died 1728), who had been Flamsteed's assistant, translated this edition and later founded a mathematical school in Greenwich.

London: printed for J. Hooke, at the Flower-de-Luce, over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, M.DCC.XXX. [1730]

Condition Description
Quarto. 18th-century ½ polished calf; spine in six compartments, gilt red morocco title piece in thes second (rebacked and recornered; somewhat tight as a result). Internally clean, bright, and crisp.
Pagination: xi, [1], 360, 369-436, [single-page engraved table, verso blank], 437-497, [3, errata and ads] pages. Complete.
Reference
Carli & Favaro 452. ESTC T101451. PMM 130 (1638 Leiden edition). Wing S517.
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