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HYDROGEOLOGY. BESSON (Jacques): The Art and Science of Findi…
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HYDROGEOLOGY. BESSON (Jacques): The Art and Science of Findi…
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HYDROGEOLOGY. BESSON (Jacques): The Art and Science of Finding Water and Springs Hidden Beneath the Earth, by Means Other Than Those Commonly Used by Farmers and Architects, by Jacques Besson of the Dauphiné, mathematician. Orléans, Eloy Gibier, 1569;
Small quarto, old vellum. Contemporary binding. First edition of this rare volume, the publication of which was shared between Gibier and Trepperel. Besson, an engineer and minister of the Word of God, was one of the few scientists of the time to be familiar with Copernicus’s doctrines. (Restored title page). From the library of Mr Beaupré, bearing his bookplate. Droz: *Chemins de l’Hérésie*, IV, 270. Desgraves: *Bibliography of the Works of Eloy Gibier*, 111.
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