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VARIGNON, Pierre (1654-1722). Traite du mouvement et de la mesure des eaux coulantes et jaillissantes. Avec un traite preliminaire du mouvement en general. Tire des ouvrages de feu Monsieur Varignon, par M. l'Abbe Pujol. Paris: Pissot, 1725.
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VARIGNON, Pierre (1654-1722). Traite du mouvement et de la mesure des eaux coulantes et jaillissantes. Avec un traite preliminaire du mouvement en general. Tire des ouvrages de feu Monsieur Varignon, par M. l'Abbe Pujol. Paris: Pissot, 1725.

4to (243 x 183 mm). 5 engraved folding plates. (Minor marginal dampstain to last ca 25 leaves, small wormtrack to blank margin of several plates.) Contemporary boards with later calf backing, upper cover set with the embossed coat of arms, edges stained red. Provenance: German Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin for Leibgarde zu Pferde (binding).

FIRST EDITION of Varignon's posthumous work edited from his manuscripts by Abbe Pujol.  The work opens with a general discussion of motion, describing Varignon's discoveries in the field of forces and acceleration, which were based on Galileo's work. The Leibgarde zu Pferde of the Schwerin army participated in the Russian campaign and in the Napoleonic war against France. Roberts & Trent 339.

Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat Botanicum

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