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Il saggiatore : nel quale con bilancia esquisita e giusta si ponderano le cose contenute nella libra astronomica e filosofica di Lotario Sarsi Sigensano, scritto in forma di lettera all'ill[ustrissi]mo et rever[endissi]mo Mons[igno]re D. Virginio Cesarini ... / dal Sig[no]re Galileo Galilei ...
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1623 (Publication)
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- Mascardi, Giacomo, active 1605-1634
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4to, 1 volume
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Owned by John Pell; Busby's own Catalogue mark: 2.1, and later Library Title
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236 pp.; with extra errata leaf; portrait engraved added
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Contemporary vellum
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- English
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