PONCELET, Jean Victor & LESBROS, Joseph Aimé.

Expériences hydrauliques sur les Lois de l'Écoulement de l'Éau à travers les Orifices rectangulaires verticaux à grandes dimensions, entreprises à Metz...d'après les Ordres du Ministre de la Guerre, sur la Proposition de M. le Général Sabatier...Mémoire lu à l'Académie des Sciences, le lundi 16 Novembre 1829.

Seven folding engraved plates (each with the stamp of the Franklin Institute). 2 p.l., 267, [1] pp. Large 4to, modern morocco-backed marbled boards (stamp of the Franklin Institute here & there and with their perforated stamp on title). Paris: de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1832. First edition. “These experiments, a continuation of those undertaken by Bossut and Du Buat at Mézières, were conducted from November of 1827 through 1828.”–Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, p. 264. Poncelet (1788-1867), made important contributions to geometry, hydraulics, the theory of machines, and industrial mechanics (see D.S.B., XI, pp. 76-82 for a long and excellent discussion). Lesbros (1790-1860), was an engineer in the French army. Good copy. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica.

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