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1752 Zanotti’s first edition of «the strenght of the bodies» A scientific speech regarding the dispute on kinetic energy between newtonians and leibnizians copy belonged to the Italian Historian Adriano Augusto Michieli profound scholar of the Mathematics of 18th century Gamba: «this speech is considered by many people the most beautiful ever seen in many centuries» Riccardi: «this work always remains of outmost scientific interest» Zanotti, Francesco Maria . Della forza de’ corpi che chiamano viva libri tre […] Al signore Giambatista Morgagni. Bologna, Per gli Eredi di Constantino Pisarri, e Giacomo Filippo Primodì, 1752. 4to (210x148 mm), contemporary stiff vellum with handwritten title on spine, pp. xx, 311, (1), (1, folding plate). Title printed in black and red. With a long preface of Francesco Tibaldi and a dedicatory letter to Morgagni. Fine allegorical engraved device at title page representing the Archangel Michel pushing Lucifer in the flames of Hell. one folding plate representing Geometrical and vettorial drawings. scarce first edition of Zanotti’s Della forza dei corpi che chiamano viva («the strenght of the bodies which we call living») a work that deals with an original point of view —at the same time scientific and metaphysical— the debate on kinetic energy existing between Newtonians and Leibnizians . According to Gamba, « this speech is considered by many people the most beautiful ever seen in many centuries» . Riccardi considers it «rare», a work that «always remains of outmost scientific interest» and «a model of polished style in the form of dialogue». Francesco Maria Zanotti Cavazzoni ( 1692-1777), was an Italian mathematician and philosopher, follower of Newton, born in Bologna where was president of the local Marsigli’s Sciences Institute. Zanotti attempted to apply to ideas the Newton’s theory of universal gravitation , and wrote a pamphlet on the subject (who pretended to translate from French): Della forza attrattiva delle idee («The attractive power of ideas») published in 1747 and which had a great success also in the following century. But the main epistemological treatise is the present Della forza dei corpi che chiamano viva («The strength of the bodies that we call living»), which fits in a matter of lively debate among the followers of Newton and Leibniz . In the XVIIIth century, the mathematical and scientific speculation often wandered on the edge of nowhere, dealing with atoms and zeros, granules and particles in experiments on electricity and magnetism. This strange and fascinating essay was considered by the following century a masterpiece of style and a work of great scientific interest: Giacomo Leopardi, in his Crestomazia Italiana della prosa (1827), made a fascinating digest from Zanotti’s work, titled Del nulla, e dell’annichilazione («About nothingless and annihilation»). In a later work, De Viribus centralibus («About central forces», 1762) Zanotti presented a perspective relatively unique to the Newtonian theory of attraction. Conditions: A little halo of wax at titlepage and light yellowings, but a fine copy printed on strong paper. Provenance: I. Unidentified contemporary nobiliar stamp (faded) at titlepage. II. Duplicate stamp of Biblioteca Magnani of Bologna, sold in 1890. III. XIXth century handwritten shelf marks (crossed out). IV. Early 20th century ex-libris of Adriano Augusto Michieli (1875-1959) , Italian historian and geographer, author of an important Storia di Treviso and profound scholar of the Mathematics of 18th century . See his studies about the Riccati Family in A.A. Michieli , Una famiglia di matematici e poligrafi trevigiani: i Riccati . I. Jacopo Riccati , in: «Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti», CII, II, Ferrari, Venezia 1943; II. Vincenzo Riccati , ibid ., CIII, II, Ferrari, Venezia ... 
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