Dissertatio de maris aestu auctore P. Rogerio Josepho Boscovich matheseos professore in collegio romano.

BOSCOVICH [BOSKOVIC], Ruggiero Giuseppe

Rome, Ex typographia Komarek, 1747. <> Premiere edition, premier tirage. Dans cette dissertation Boscovich compare les theories des marees selon Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Descartes et Newton. Il montre que Newton donne la meilleure explication possible. Le pere jesuite et grand scientifique d'origine croate, Boscovich (Dubrovnik, 1711-Milano, 1787), a ete un influent propagateur de la philosophie d'Isaac Newton en Italie. Le second tirage porte un titre un peu different, "De aestu maris dissertatio" et il est sans nom d'auteur. Au dernier feuillet, on lit : 'Il faut maintenant franchir un pas vers la seconde partie de la dissertation, dans laquelle les phenomenes des marees, derives de leurs principes a l'aide de la geometrie et de l'arithmetique, sont expliques plus clairement et determines avec beaucoup plus de precision'.. Dans le second tirage il a ete ajoute a la suite la phrase suivante : "Sed eam, ut initio diximus, non hic una exhibemus, propediem evulgatur." [Comme nous l'avons dit au debut, nous ne le presentons pas ici, il sera publie prochainement]. Dans notre exemplaire, cette derniere phrase ne figure pas. Boscovich prevoyait donc de publier une seconde partie a la suite de celle-ci. Dans le second tirage il annonce sa publication future, mais de fait, le materiel destine a la deuxieme partie n'a jamais ete publie separement et a ete incorpore dans le "De expeditione litteraria" (Rome 1755). *Plus de photos sur demande. *******************ENGLISH***********First edition, first issue. In this dissertation Boscovich compares theories of explanation of the tidal motion according to Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Descartes and Newton. It shows that Newton gives the best possible explanation. The Jesuit father and great scientist, Boscovich (Dubrovnik, 1711-Milano, 1787), was an influential propagator of the philosophy of Isaac Newton in Italy. The second issue bears a slightly different title, "De aestu maris dissertatio" and is without the author's name. On the last page, we read: 'A step must now be taken to the second part of the dissertation, in which the phenomena of the sea tide, derived from their principles with the aid of geometry and arithmetic, are explained more clearly, and determined much more accurately'. In the second issue the following sentence was added : 'As we said at the beginning, we do not present it here , it will be published soon" (Sed eam, ut initio diximus, non hic una exhibemus, propediem evulgatur.) In our copy, this last sentence does not appear. Boscovich therefore planned to publish a second part following this one. In the second issue he announces its future publication, but in fact, the material intended for the second part was never published separately and was incorporated in the "De expeditione litteraria" (Rome 1755). "Boskovic was perhaps the last polymath to figure in an important way in the history of science... A somewhat isolated figure he belonged to no definite eighteen-century tradition. ... Boskovic's interests were more manifold than was at all normal, even in the eighteenth century, for one who participated deeply in the actual work of science." D.S.B., II, p. 326. Riccardi, Biblioteca matematica italiana I, 175. Catalogue Ernst Weill 27, n8 39. *More pictures on request. <> Format : In-4. <> Collation : 51 pp. <> Reliure : Velin. (Reliure de l'epoque.). Item #17938

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