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Description
[TECHNICAL]
By CAMUS, a gentleman from Lorraine:
A Treatise on Moving Forces for the Practice of Arts and Crafts; with an explanation of twenty new and useful machines.
Paris. Claude Jombert and Laurent Le Conte, 1722.
8vo. Full contemporary binding in fawn sheepskin. Ribbed spine, decorated with metal fittings and gilt fillets. 8 unnumbered pages, 535 pp., 7 pp. and 8 folding plates.
“Camus, a French mechanic and builder of ingenious machines, demonstrated that the friction of a solid is less when in motion than when at rest”
“Camus invented an automatic carriage, made a pendulum, and built a floating bridge that would position itself across a river, however wide it might be, without anyone having to operate it… In 1722, he published his principal work, the *Treatise on Moving Forces*, containing descriptions of 23 new machines of his own invention. In it, he provides extensive guidance on how to improve capstans, as well as on better methods of hardening metals, and he derives from his theories several useful conclusions for the construction of muskets, large cannons and machines of all kinds...". (Hoefer 8, pp. 425/427).
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