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Refreshing new insights and ideas

ABAT, Bonaventure.
Amusemens philosophiques sur diverses parties des sciences, et principalement de la physique et des mathematiques.

With woodcut vignette on title, 4 folding engraved plates with many figures and mathematical diagrams, some woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials.

With woodcut vignette on title, 4 folding engraved plates with many figures and mathematical diagrams, some woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials.

With woodcut vignette on title, 4 folding engraved plates with many figures and mathematical diagrams, some woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials.

With woodcut vignette on title, 4 folding engraved plates with many figures and mathematical diagrams, some woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials.

With woodcut vignette on title, 4 folding engraved plates with many figures and mathematical diagrams, some woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials.



Amsterdam, for Jean Mossy, Marseille, 1763. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with title label lettered in gold, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. With woodcut vignette on title, 4 folding engraved plates with many figures and mathematical diagrams, some woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. XXXII, 564, 4 pp.

Very rare, interesting and charming work with 12 philosophical amusements or pastimes on different scientifical subjects - divided into many propositions -, with an emphasis on mathematical and physical cases. For example '(1) 'touchant une propriété remarcable de deux arcs de cercle quelconques combinés ensemble'; (2) 'La quadrature de trois lunules différentes, faites par l'intersection de deux arcs de cercle'; (3) 'La quadrature de plusieurs triangles curvilines, composés de trois différens cercles'; (5) 'Sur quelques phénomenes électriques'; '... sur un miroir, dans lequel l'empereur Néron voyoit les combats des gladiateurs'; (10) 'Sur les moyens de connoitre la vraie grandeur dans laquelle nous voyons les objets'; (12) 'Sur l'incompatibilité de la rondeur des goutes des liqueurs, avec le systeme de l'attraction',  etc.
The author, a seventeent-century brother of the Minorites at Barcelona, tries to approach basic standards or certainties in another way to give a new, refreshing insight or idea. The book is dedicated to Jean-Baptiste de Belloy, bishop of Marseille. At the end is the 'Table des amusemens' (pp. 1-3).

Good copy.
Cioranescu 7234.

Related Subjects: Mathematics  Philosophy  Science 

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