MICHELINI, Famiano.

Trattato della Direzione de' Fiumi nel quale si dimostrano da' suoi veri principi i modi più sicuri, e meno dispendiosi di riparare a' danni, che sogliono farsi dall' Acque.

Nine folding engraved plates. Title printed in red & black. 7 p.l., 151, [1] pp. Small 4to, 18th-cent. speckled English calf (corners a little rounded, some rubbing), red morocco lettering piece on spine. Florence: Stella, 1664. First edition of the only book published by the author during his lifetime. Michelini (1604-65), a friend of Galileo and Castelli, was professor of mathematics at Pisa. He was acknowledged by his contemporaries as an expert on hydraulics and was consulted on such problems as the silting in the Venetian lagoon and control of the Arno at Pisa. He suggested that river beds be protected and repaired by bulkheads filled with stones, and proposed a theory explaining why the current is faster in the middle of a stream than near its banks, relating the velocity of current to the gradient of the river bed. The present work was a source for Guglielmini’s fundamental treatise Della Natura de’ Fiumi (1697). Very good copy. Bute bookplate. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica. ❧ D.S.B., IX, pp. 369-70. Riccardi, II, 156–“Questa bella e rara ediz.” Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, p. 224-“This work discusses flow, resistance, flow characteristics of different sorts of rivers, etc. Many of the later chapters are devoted to techniques for altering the course or the flow characteristics of a river, preventing flooding, etc.”

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