MARIOTTE, Edmé.

Oeuvres...

Engraved vignette on each title & 26 engraved folding plates. Titles printed in red & black. 6 p.l., 320 pp.; 2 p.l., 321-701, [35] pp. Two vols. in one. Large 4to, cont. calf (rebacked with much of the orig. spine laid-down, corners repaired, a little dusty), red morocco lettering piece on spine. Leyden: P. vander Aa, 1717. First collected edition and very uncommon, containing “most of Mariotte’s published papers, together with the previously unpublished Traité du mouvement des pendules, which Huygens possessed in manuscript form and had given to the University of Leyden.”–Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, pp. 217-18. Mariotte wrote on a great variety of subjects such as the motion of fluids, optics, meteorology, the fall of bodies, elasticity, percussion, plant physiology, and methodology. He discovered the “blind spot” in the eye and attacked Newton’s color theory. Mariotte (1620?-84), introduced experimental physics into France. Good copy. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica.

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