Mathematical Collections and Translations: The First Tome


Mathematical Collections and Translations: The First Tome



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To the most Serene Grand DUKE OF TUSCANY.

To the Noble and most perfectly Accomplished S^{t.} JOHN DENHAM Knight of the Noble Order of the BATH, And Surveyor General of his Ma^{ties} Works, &c.

THE AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION.

CONTENTS of the FIRST TOME.

GALILÆUS Galilæus Lyncæus, HIS SYSTEME OF THE WORLD.
  The First Dialogue.
  The Second Dialogue.
  The Third Dialogue.
  The Fourth Dialogue.

THE Ancient and Modern DOCTRINE OF Holy Fathers, AND Iudicious Divines,

A TABLE Of the most Observable PERSONS and MATTERS Mentioned in the FIRST PART Of The First Tome.

MATHEMATICAL COLLECTIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: THE SECOND TOME.

THE AUTHOURS EPISTLE TO Pope URBAN VIII.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE Authour and Work.

OF THE MENSURATION OF Running Waters.
  LIB. I.
  Lib. II.

A CONSIDERATION Upon the DRAINING OF THE Pontine Fenns.

A TABLE Of the most observable matters in this Treatise of the MENSURATION of RUNNING WATERS.

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AN ACCOUNT OF THE Authour and Work.

DON BENEDETTO CASTELLI, the famous Authour of these ensuing Discourses of the Mensuration of Running Waters, is descended from the Worshipful FAMILY of theGASTELLII, and took his first breath near to the lake THR ASIMENVS, (where Hanibal gave a fatal overthrow to the Roman Legions) in that sweet and fertile part of happy ITALY, called the Territory of PERUGIA, a branch of the Dukedome of TUSCANY, which at present submitteth to the Jurisdiction of the Church, as being a part of St. PETER'S Patrimony. His Parents, who were more zealous of the good of his Soul than observant of the Propension of his Genius, dedicated him (according to the Devotion of that Country) to the Service of the Church; and entered him into the Flourishing Order of Black-Friers, called from the place Moncks of Monte Casino, and from the Founder Benedictines. Nature, that She might consummate the Profusion of her Favours upon him, sent him into the World in an Age that was so ennobled and illuminated with Eminent Scholars in all Kinds of Literature, that hardly any Century since the Creation can boast the like.

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