Delle altezze barometriche e di alcuni insigni paradossi relativi alle medesime. Saggio analitico con alcune riflessioni preliminari intorno all' applicazione delle matematiche alla fisica.
Pavia: Giuseppe Bolzani, 1771.
1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #003034
8vo (193 x 116 mm). [16], 160 pp., including initial blank leaf, half-title, woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and tailpieces. Print date from colophon on final page. Near contemporary half calf over sprinkled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt (rubbing to boards and extremities, corners scuffed), red-sprinkled edges. Text generally fresh and clean, very minor occasional spotting. Provenance: Innocenzo Laneri, Medical professor (manuscript bookplate to front pastedown); Giancarlo Beltrame Library. ----
Riccardi I, 469 ("E uno dei primi e più esatti trattati relativi all'uso del barometro nella determinazione delle altezze"). FIRST EDITION of one of the first and most accurate treatises on the use of the barometer for determining altitude, principally based on Isaac Newton's and d'Alemberts findings. Gregorio Fontana (1735-1803) was a Trentino mathematician and author of numerous physical and mathematical works.
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