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Cool, earnest, spare and grave.
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Galileo Galilei
- First published
- 1638
- Pages
- 300
- Publisher
- G. Einaudi, Readex Microprint, Macmillan Co.
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- Italian, French, English
- ISBN
- 9781432537364
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“SALV. The constant activity which you Venetians display in your famous arsenal suggests to the studious mind a large field for investigation, especially that part of the work which involves mechanics; for in this department all types of instruments and machines are constantly being constructed by many artisans, among whom there must be some who, partly by inherited experience and partly by their own observations, have become highly expert and clever in explanation.”
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