GAMACHES, Etienne Simon de.

Astronomie Physique, ou Principes généraux de la Nature, appliqués au Mecanisme astronomique, et comparés aux Principes de la Philosophie de M. Newton.

Engraved vignette on title, engraved head- & tailpieces, & 22 fine folding engraved plates. 4 p.l., xlviii, 362, [10] pp. Large 4to, cont. mottled calf (joints & corners carefully repaired, occasional minor marginal dampstaining), spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: C.-A. Jombert, 1740. First edition. “Gamaches was a member of the French Royal Academy of Science and here gives nine dissertations on the Nature and Laws of Movement, the Principles of the Philosophy of Newton, the Theory of the Planets, etc., and a clarification of relative movement and Newtonian attraction.”–Babson 63. The fine vignette and head- and tail-pieces are by Cochin. Very good copy. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica. ❧ Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, p. 131.

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