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VARIGNON, Traité du mouvement des eaux coulantes, 1725
VARIGNON, Pierre.
Traité du mouvement des eaux coulantes et jaillissantes. Avec un traité préliminaire du mouvement général.
Paris, PIssot, 1725.
4to (235x180 mm), (16)-128 pages and 5 folding plates. binding : Contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated flat spine. Little wormholes in the head joint.
First edition.
Posthumous work published by Abbé Pujol, pupil of Varignon. Pierre Varignon was the first to use differential calculus in certain areas of physics. He is one of the fathers of modern kinematics.
references: DSB [XIII, 586] Bibliotheca mechanica [339 : "The study opens with a general discussion of motion, declaring Varignon's discoveries in field of forces and acceleration, which were based on Galileo's work. As well, Varignon lays down principles of the movement and measurement of water, and for the measurements of pipes in aqueducts and fountains"].
Price : 750 €
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