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AUBUISSON DE VOISINS, Jean François.
A Treatise on Hydraulics, for the Use of Engineers.
Translated from the French...by Joseph Bennett. Five folding plates. xxiii, [1], 532 pp. 8vo, orig. cloth (joints repaired), spine lettered in gilt. Boston: Little, Brown, 1852. First edition in English of the author’s Traité d’Hydraulique (1st ed.: 1834), which is usually considered to be the first didactic treatise on hydraulics. This book was one of a rapidly growing series of treatises on a subject that in itself was undergoing a continuous expansion. Very good copy. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica. ❧ D.S.B., I, pp. 327-28. Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, p. 19–(& see the long description of the first edition for the book’s contents and importance). Rouse & Ince, History of Hydraulics, p. 161. Rouse, Hydraulics in the United States 1776-1976, pp. 34 & 49.
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