Author: MARIOTTE, (E.).-
Title: Oeuvres de M.Mariotte, de l'académie Royale des Sciences; Comprenant Tous les Traitez de cet Auteur, tant vceux qui avoient déja paru séparément, que ceux qui n'avoient pas encore été publiés. Imprimees sur les Exemplaires les plus exacts & les plus complets; Revues & corrigées de nouveau. Nouvelle édition. Tome Premier [Seconde].
Description: a la Haye, Chez Jean Neaulme, 1740. 4to. 2 parts in 1 vol. W. title in red and black, engr. vign. on title, 26 fold. engr. pls. Excellent contemp. full clf. panel binding, covers w. a single line giltruled border, the borders between dark and lightcol. leather finely and extensively blindruled, 1 double pattern and 1 single blindruled pattern. Twice 4 handtools in the corners of the panels. The spine in 6 compartments, 1 for the red titleshield, giltlettered & the 5 remaining w. elab. gilttooling . (Upper outer hinge splitting over 4 compartments, but still firm.). [...]. (X, 320, IV, 321 - - 701, I, XVII pp.). (All edges red.). (Bookplate on upper blank free endp. 'Ex Libris Aage Bremerholm'). (Throughout badly watersp.; Top center of blank margin vague to more visible watersp. over ca. .... % of total pages.). Originally published in 1717. Revised and much corrected edition, amended with a.o. the treatise on the pendulum movement. DSB vol. IX, pp. 114 - 122: Edme Mariotte [date of birth unknown - 1684] Experimental physics, mechanics, hydraulics, optics, plant physiology, meteorology, surveying.'Honored as the man who introduced experimental phyiscis into France, ... As an active memeber of the Academy for over 25 years, Mariotte exerted influence over scientific colleagues both within and without that institution. His closest associate seems to have been la Hire, but [he worked with] most of tjhe other members, including Huygens. His work was known to the Royal Society and was cited by Newton in the 'Principia'. Mariotte conducted an extensive correspondence with.. with Leibniz, ... [quote by du Hamel:] ...His cleverness in the design of experiments was almost incredible, and he carried them out with minimal expense.' Verne Roberts Coll. Bibliotheca Mechanica, p. 216: '...': Brunet 4218: Honeyman coll. [part...], 2156: Part I 'Traite de la Percussion', w. 5 plates & Memoires por servir a la science des choses naturelles: vegetation des plantes, nature de l'air chaud et froid, nature des couleurs w. 8 plates; Volume II w. Traite du mouvement des eaux (9 plates), Regles pour les jets dd'eau; Nouvelle decouverte touchant la vue; Traite du nivellment (2 plates); Traite du mouvement des Pendules 91 plate); Experiences touchant les couleurs et la congelation de l'eau; Essai de logique (1 plate): Wolf, History of Science, I, pp. 234 - 235, 242 - 243, 271 - 272, 279 - 280, 314 - 315, 374 - 377:

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