De sphaera et solidis sphaeralibus
Subtitle: libri duo in quibus Archimedis doctrina de sphaera & cylindro denuo componitur, latiùs promouetur, : et in omni specie solidorum, quae vel circa, vel intra sphaeram, ex conuersione poligonorum regularium gigni possint, vniversaliùs propagatur : ad Serenissimum Ferdinandum II magnum Ducem Etruriae
By: auctore Evangelista Torricellio eiusdem Serenissimi magni Ducis mathematico.
Contributors: Prouhet, E. 1817-1867 former owner.; Warner, John, d. 1873 former owner.; Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Publisher: Typis Amatoris Masse̜, & Laurentij de Landis
Published: 1644
Place of publication: Florentiae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Archimedes.; Geometry -- Early works to 1800 -- Early works to 1800.; Sphere -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800; Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Opera geometrica Evangelistae Torricellii
Notes: Signatures: pi¹ A-2F⁴ 2G⁶, ²A-T⁴.

Half-title: Opera geometrica Evangelistae Torricellii : de solidis sphaeralibus, de motu, de dimensione parabolae, de solido hyperbolico, cum appendicibus de cycloide, & cochlea.

Sections "De motu gravium ..." and "De dimensione parabolae ..." have each a special t.p., without imprint. Pagination and signing recommence at "De dimensione parabolae ..."

"Superiorum permissu."

For complete bibliographical description see Riccardi, P. Biblioteca matematica italiana.

Title page within lined border; head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Burns Library copy: stamp: "Ex libris Eugène Prouhet et amicorum"; bookplate: "Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ..."; autographs: John Warner, M.[J.?] Paolo del Buono.

c.1: 02-31410.
Table of contents: value: De solidis sphaeralibus : liber primus[-secundus]; value: De motu gravium naturaliter descendentium, et proiectorum libri duo ...; value: De dimensione parabolae, solidique hyperbolici problemata duo : ... cum appendice de dimensione spatij cycloidalis, & cochleae.