MOTTE, Andrew.

A Treatise of the Mechanical Powers: Wherein the Laws of Motion, and the Properties of those Powers are Explained and Demonstrated in an easie and familiar Method.

Three engraved plates & numerous illus. in the text (several full-page). 4 p.l., 222, [2] pp. 8vo, cont. calf (rebacked), double gilt fillet round sides. London: B. Motte, 1727. First edition of this important Newtonian textbook of mechanics, published two years before the author's translation of the Principia. "This work is intended by the author for students of natural philosophy and for the workman who deals with machines on a daily basis. Thoroughly Newtonian in spirit, it contains sections on the laws of motion with respect to forces and with respect to bodies, on the balance, lever, pulls, wheel, inclined plane, wedge, and screw. There is a chapter of general observations, followed by chapters on friction and the sail, with an appendix."­Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, p. 231. Very good copy. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica.

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