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PASCAL. On the Equilibrium of Liquids and the Weight of the …
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69
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PASCAL. On the Equilibrium of Liquids and the Weight of the …
See original version (French)
Estimate €500 - €800
Voluntary lot
Description
PASCAL.
On the Equilibrium of Liquids and the Weight of the Mass of Air…
Paris: Guillaume Desprez, 1663.
In-16, (27)-232-(6) pp. Contemporary mottled fawn sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine, red-mottled edges (corners worn, headbands trimmed, clasps worn, some soiling, one plate slightly creased, one plate missing).
Bibliography:
Tchemerzine, V, 59.
Description:
Posthumous first edition, edited by François Périer, his brother-in-law and collaborator, and by the physicist Rohault.
The first work to assert that pressure in a liquid is transmitted undiminished in all directions.
In its contemporary binding.
By the philosopher and scientist, discoverer and physicist, Blaise Pascal (1623–1662).
Illustrated with a fold-out plate engraved in black on copper.
In French in the text, 101.
See original version (French)
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