Traite des hygrometres ou machines pour mesurer la secheresse et l'humidité de l'air.

FOUCHER, Simon

Verlag: chez E. Michallet, Paris, 1686

Beschreibung

12mo (140 x 84 mm). [2], 3-195 (i.e. 166), [2]pp., including one folding engraved plate, woodcut diagrams in the text. Numerous mispaginations. Contemporary calf, gilt-lettered spine with 5 raised bands gilt in compartments (spine ends chipped, corners scuffed, boards rubbed). Internally little browned, occasional minor spotting. Provenance: illegible signature to first flyleaf. Good, unmarked copy. ---- Sotheby's Macclesfield Cat. IV, 809. RARE FIRST EDITION. A work on the measurement of atmospheric humidity, by an author perhaps better known as a prominent critic of Cartesian philosophy. Some of the nine "Articles" of which the work is made up consist of extracts from letters written by the author, mostly to M. Mariotte of the Académie royale des Sciences, between December 1672 and May 1673. An account of a hygrometer which was invented by Robert Boyle is given on pp. 72-73. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 002695

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Titel: Traite des hygrometres ou machines pour ...

Verlag: chez E. Michallet, Paris

Erscheinungsdatum: 1686

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition