BOSSE, Abraham || DESARGUES, Girard. La manière universelle de Mr. Desargues lyonnais pour poser l'essieu & placer les heures & autres choses aux cadrans au soleil. 1643.

Paris, Pierre Des-Hayes, 1643.

Un volume in-8 (205x137 mm), frontispice gravé, (6)-28-68 pages et 34 feuillets incluant un titre additionel et 66 planches gravées.  reliure : Plein vélin rigide de l'époque. Manque de vélin en haut et en bas du dos. Piqûres de vers au plat supérieur, sans atteinte au corps d'ouvrage. Mouillures en marge inférieure, sans gravité.

références: Kemp [in. The Science of Art, pp. 120-123 Desargues (1591-1661) , was the "greatest perspectivist and projective geometer of his generation... Desargues was a civil and military engineer, an architect specialising in staircase design and above all a geometer of extraordinary spatial vision. His intellectual ambition was expressed in two closely-related aspirations: the building of a geometry of position (i.e. non-metrical) based on projective techniques; and the provision of all-embracing methods of geometrical operation for practitioners in various fields ... In 1643, Bosse brought out the first of the publications in which he expounded Desargue's views. These consisted of treatises devoted to -- manières universelles -- for the cutting of stones in architectures according to the principles of projective geometry and the making of sundials, etc. These attracted new assaults, this time from an expert in stonecutting, Curabelle, who devoted three pamphlets to the criticism of Desargues's works"]. Desargues : DSB, IV, pp.46-51. Bosse : DSB, II, pp. 333-34.

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