MAURO FIORENTINO. - Annotatione sopra la Lettione della Spera (sic) del Sacrobosco. Dove si dichiarano tutti i principii Mathematici & Naturali... Una nuova e fedele traduttione di detta Sfera... Una nuova inventione, & Astronomico instrumento... - (Colophon:) Firenze, (Torrentino), 1550
Small 4to. Contemp. vellum. Several ornamental initials and numerous text woodcuts (3 full-page): globes, stars, planets, scientific instruments, etc. 219 pp.; light dampstain on some leaves but a good copy
First edition of Mauro’s new translation of the Sphaera and of his annotations and commentaries which include theological and Neo-Platonic interpretations. It reveals Mauro’s compliance with the Church’s opposition to Copernicus which induced him to suppress the remarks on the new discoveries which were in his 1537 Italian version. «The theme of the commentary is a compromise and is succintly expressed in the maxim printed on p. 160 (trans.): “God is a sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere”» (Kraus 204/126). «This book represents the first step of the Roman Church in the beginning struggle against Copernicus’ revolutionary theory» (E. Weil 19/207). Houzeau & L. 1668. Moreni, Torrentino, 85-87. Riccardi II, 138: «Bella edizione».
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