Inside Out Library · Explore

De motv natvrali; gravivm solidorvm et liqvidorvm

Baliani, Giovanni Battista, 1582-1666 · 1646 · Genvae, Ex typ. I.M. Farroni · 49 pictures

A 1646 Latin physics treatise on natural motion of heavy solid and liquid bodies by Giovanni Battista Baliani, printed in Geneva by Farroni for a scholarly readership. Its pictures are ornamental woodcut headpieces and tailpieces with scrolls, acanthus-like foliage, and symmetrical cartouches, useful to a designer looking for early modern decorative borders and ornament frames.

Motion · Physics -- Early works to 1800

Internet Archive · Fisher - University of Toronto · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library