T96 INTRODUCTION 



and the British Museum possess copies of this Pistoia reprint of 

 1763. The British Museum copy, the only one I have seen, is a 

 quarto volume of 73 pages followed by a reduced reproduction of 

 the plate. It is more compactly printed than the original edition, 

 and page 68 has a brief index of contents. The original attesta- 

 tions on page 71 are followed by the re-imprimatur as follows: 

 Dominicus Bracciolini Vicarius Generalis Si Stampi Francesco 

 Alfonso Tallinucci per S. M. C. Giudise ordinario di Pistoja. 

 The title-page bears the following quotation from Bacon : 



Qui partes scribendi Historiam. IVaturalem- sibi sum.pserint hoc 

 cogitent se 7ion lectoris delectationi debere inservire ; sed com.parare 

 rerum copiam. et varietatem, quae veris axiom,atibus conficiendis suffi,- 

 ciat. Par. ad Hist. Nat. et Exper. Aph. II} 



3. Facsimile Edition. Ed. W. Junk. No. 5 : N. Steno De Solido 

 Intra Solidum. Naturaliter Contento — Dissertationis Prodom.us. 

 Ad Serenissim.um- Ferdinandum II Magnum Etruriae Ducem. 



Florentiae, 1669. Exempt. No. . W. Junk, Berlin N.W., 



Rathenower Str. 22, 1904. 



The Berlin Facsimile is an exact reproduction of the original 

 edition, by the heliotype process. 



4. De Solido Intra Solidum Naturaliter Contento — Disserta- 

 tionis Prodromus. Ad Serenissimum Ferdinandum II Magnum 

 Etruriae Ducem. (A corrected text of the original edition.) 

 Vilhelm Maar, Nicolai Stenonis Opera Philosophica (Copenhagen, 

 Vilhelm Tryde, MCMX), Vol. II, pp. 181-227. 



III. INCOMPLETE EDITION 



E Dissertatione Nicolai Stenonis De Solido Intra Solidum, 

 Naturaliter Contento Excerpta In Quibus Doctrinas Geologicas 

 Quae Hodie Sunt In Honore Facile Est Reperire. Curante Leo- 

 poldo Pilla, Florentiae, Ex Typographia Galilaeiana, 1842. 



Pilla's edition of 1842 may be found in the Library of the Uni- 

 versity of Bologna, the British Museum, the Library of the Geolog- 

 ical Society in London, and undoubtedly in other libraries. It 



1 Translation : ' Let those who undertake the writing of natural history reflect that they 

 ought not to be Subservient to the pleasure of the reader . . . but that they ought to collect 

 and prepare a store and diversity of things which may be sufficient for forming genuine 

 axioms.' 



