MUSSCHENBROEK, Petrus van.

Essai de Physique...avec une Description de nouvelles sortes de Machines Pneumatiques et un Recueil d'Expériences...Traduit du Hollandois par Mr. Pierre Massuet.

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Engraved frontis. port. & 34 folding engraved plates (incl. 5*). Titles in red & black. xxv, [3],502 pp.; 1 p.l., 501 [i.e. 503]-864, 869-914, [32], 63, 8 pp. Two vols. Large 4to, orig. boards (some minor foxing & browning, a little waterstaining in Vol. II). Leyden: S. Luchtmans, 1739. First edition in French of one of the best 18th-century introductions to Newtonian physics. This is a book filled with interesting experiments and problems. Some of the subjects covered are gravity, mechanics, machinery, elasticity, electricity, capillarity, hydraulics, optics (with a long account of vision and the eye), celestial mechanics, comets, and the weather system. Musschenbroek (1692-1761), professor of natural philosophy and mathematics at Utrecht and, later, professor of experimental physics at Leyden, was one of the most celebrated physicists and most important investigators of his time. The experiments described in his books have become classics in elementary instruction. “Underlying Musschenbroek’s lectures demonstrated with experiments was the experimental philosophy...the principal source of inspiration was Newton, but Galileo, Torricelli, Huygens, Reaumur, and others were important to this school.”–D.S.B., IX, p. 596. Nice set in original state. ❧ Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, pp. 232-33. Wheeler Gift Cat. 300.

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