1725 AUTO Mechanics Math Inventions Physics Ozanam Magic Science Astronomy 4v

1725 AUTO Mechanics Math Inventions Physics Ozanam Magic Science Astronomy 4v

Jacques Ozanam was a 17^th-century French mathematician most-known for his work ‘Recreations’, or ‘Mathematics’, which covered a wide variety of scientific and mathematical topics. This impressive 1725 edition covers notable and desirable content including math, optics, geography, astronomy, early concepts of auto mechanics, and architecture. The 135 impressive engravings accentuate the desirability of this work – engravings of columns, science and physics experiments, and even an illustration of early playing cards!

Item number: #27249

Price: $950

OZANAM, Jacques

Recreations mathematiques et physiques, qui contiennent plusieurs problemes d’aritmetique, de geométrie, de musique, d’optique, de gnomonique, de cosmographie, de mécanique, de pyrotechnie, et de physique. Avec un Traité des horloges elementaires

Paris : Charles Antoine Jombert, 1725.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 4 volumes
  • I – [24], 460, [28]
  • II – [6], 462, [14]
  • III – [8], 482, [14]
  • IV – [8], 446, [6]
  • 135 engraved plates!
• Provenance: Handwritten – David Singmaster, 1988
  • David Breyer Singmaster (1938–2023) was an American-British mathematician who was emeritus professor of mathematics at London South Bank University, England. Singmaster had one of the world’s largest collections of books on recreational mathematics which he had accumulated starting in the late 1970s. In 1996, he reported that the collection contained over 4700 works. He was perhaps most famous for being an early adopter and enthusiastic promoter of the Rubik’s Cube.
• Language: French
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~7.75in X 5in (19.5cm x 13cm)

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