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De motu animalium was Borelli’s last and greatest work and was published
posthumously. He had hoped for election to the Académie Royale des
Sciences in Paris and promised to send the manuscript of the book to be
published in Paris with a dedication to the king. This came to nothing and
in late 1679 Queen Christina of Sweden agreed to bear the printing costs and
the book is dedicated to her. Borelli died in December that year and the book
was seen through the press by Father Giovanni di Gesù, his benefactor at the
convent in Rome where he spent the last years of his life. Volume I, on external
motions, or the motions produced by the muscles appeared in 1680, volume
II, dealing with internal motions, such as muscular contraction, circulation,
respiration and secretion late in 1681. (Thomas B. Settle, DSB II:312.)
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BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso (1608–1679)
De motu animalium... Editio altera. Correctior & emendatior.
Leiden: Apud Johannem de Vivie, Cornelium Boutesteyn, Danielem à
Gaesbeeck, & Petrum vander Aa, 1685.
2 volumes 4to: p2 A2 B4 2A–2N4 2O4 , 154 leaves, pp. [16] 280 (i.e.
274) [18] (last page blank); p2 A–3A4 3B2 , 192 leaves, pp. [4] 365 [15].
Engraved title on p1r.
18 engraved plates: numbered Tab: I–XVIII (bound as throwouts on
full blank leaves at the end).
203 x 152mm. Light dustsoiling, light foxing, some gatherings heavily
browned.
Binding: Contemporary vellum boards, red and green sprinkled edges.
A bit soiled.
Second edition. Another issue has the imprint ‘Apud Cornelium
Boutesteyn, Danielem à Gaesbeeck, Johannem de Vivie & Petrum
vander Aa’. Krivatsy 1580; Wellcome II, p. 204.
A nice copy of the second edition, claimed to be ‘corrected and emended’.
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BOYLE, Robert (1627–1691)
Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental
natural philosophy. Propos’d in a familiar discourse to a friend, by
way of invitation to the study of it... A second edition [since the Wrst
published June 1663.].
Oxford: printed by Hen: Hall printer to the university, for Ri: Davis, 1664
[i.e. 1671].
4to: * 4 A–R 4 ; a–3d 4 3f–3g 4 , 280 leaves, pp. [16] 126 (i.e. 124, 121–122
omitted) [4]; 416 (i.e. 398, 185–192, 295–6, 377–386 omitted, 287–288
repeated) [18]. Leaf 3d4 is a longditudinal half­title for Tome I. Bound
with a duplicate of gathering 2 A from Tome II after R4.