Dissertatio philosophica de planeticolis quam una cum thesibus ex universa philosophia ... in Lyceo Tridentino praeside p. Gaspare Savoy ... publicae disputationi subjecit ... Jos. Alphonsus Widmann de Corredensis Annaniensis : mense Julio anno MDCCLXX

Trento: ex typographia episcopali Monauniana, 1770. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. [1770?]. 4to (234 x 175 mm). viii, 120 [i.e. 112], 8 pp., 2 engraved folding plates, 1 woodcut within text. Later plain wrappers, internally fresh and unspotted, a few occasional annotations in contemporary hand. Collated complete. ---- FIRST EDITION, very rare work on the habitability of the moon and other planets by Gaspare Savoy. The first copper engraving shows the solar system after Fontenelle's Entretiens sur la Pluralité des Mondes. The other engraving represents a map of the moon after Riccioli. Worldcat knows of 4 copies only, all in Italian libraries. Gaspare Savoy was a missionary who taught poetry and between 1768 and 1773 Philosophy at the College of Trento. He published three works: in 1770 the "Dissertatio de philosophica planeticolis ...", in 1772 the "Dissertatio de usu et philosophica effectiveness campanarum adversum tempestates ..." and in 1784 the "Dissertatio physico-historico-canonical æquitatem juxta necessitatem demonstrans mortuos extra urbes et oppida sepeliendi." [1770] - Visit our website to see more images!