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1. Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti : comprese in tre lettere scritte all' illustrissimo signor Marco Velseri linceo, duum viro d'augusta consigliero di sua Maesta Cesarea / dal signor Galileo Galilei linceo, nobil fiorentino, filosofo, e matematico primario del sereniss. D. Cosimo II. Gran Duca di Toscana ; si aggiungono nel fine le lettere, e disquisizioni del finto Apelle.

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Creator:: Galilei, Galileo, 1564–1642
Date:: MDCXIII [1613]
Physical Description:: 4, 164, 55, [1] pages : illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The discovery of a world in the moone, or, A discourse tending to prove that 'tis probable there may be another habitable world in that planet ...

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Creator:: Wilkins, John, 1614–1672
Date:: 1638
Physical Description:: 8, 209 (i.e. 211), [4] p. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A tutor to astronomy and geography, or, An easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, cœlestial and terrestrial : in six books ... : with an appendix shewing the use of the Ptolomaick sphere / by Joseph Moxon ... ; whereunto is added the antient poetical stories of the stars ... ; as also a discourse of the antiquity, progress and augmentation of astronomy.

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Creator:: Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Date:: MDCLXXIV [1674]
Physical Description:: [8], 271, [9] p. : ill. ; 21 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts