MARALDI, (GIOVANNI DOMENICO). - THE VELOCITY OF LIGHT.

Considerations sur la seconde inégalité du mouvement des Satellites de Jupiter, & sur l'hypothese du mouvement successif de la lumiere.

(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1708). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences". Année 1707. Pp. 25-32. A small tear to inner margins.

First printing of one of Maraldi's more theoretical memoirs in which he defended the point of view of Cassini I, opposing the hypothesis of the finite velocity of light, conceived by Ole Römer to account for certain irregularities in the movement of Jupiter’s satellites.

Order-nr.: 46058