Elementorum Curvilineorium Libri tres. By John Baptista Porta. Rome,
1610, 4to.[93]
This is a ridiculous attempt, which defies description, except that it is
all about lunules. Porta was a voluminous writer. His printer announces
fourteen works printed, and four to come, besides thirteen plays printed,
and eleven waiting. His name is, and will be, current in treatises on
physics for more reasons than one.
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