Usage du Compas de Proportion, et de l'Instrument universel, Pour resoudre promptement & tres-exactement les Problemes de la Geometrie pratique, tant sur le Papier que sur le Terrain, sans aucun Calcul. Avec un Traite de la Division des Champs. . . .Nouvelle edition.

OZANAM, Jacques (1640-1718).

Edité par Chez Charles-Ant. Jombert, 1748., Paris:, 1748

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12mo. [arranged by successive 8vo., Sm. 4to. signatures = 12mo.] xxi, [3], 240, 12 pp. 12 engraved folding plates. Ownership signatures of Frank W. Cousins and A. H. Murray, gift inscription of Michael Daley to Frank W. Cousins, armorial bookplate with Stonor family crest. Original mottled calf, gilt-decorated spine; joints worn. Very good. "In 1688 Ozanam provided an ample explanation of the use of the proportional compass which Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) had illustrated in his work, "Operations of the geometric and military compass" dated 1606. This instrument. . . was intended to provide a quick means of calculation for all operations pertaining to the art of war, such as ballistics or the measuring or distances and of places. / Ozanam's text . . . is divided into two parts. The first regards the construction and use of the sector, that versatile Galilean instrument of 1596. The second consists in a treatise on the division of surfaces." â Â" Cigola, p. 229. / "By almost any criterion Ozanam cannot be regarded as a first rate mathematician, even of his own time. But he had a flair for writing and during his career wrote a number of books, some of which were very popular, passing through many editions. [. . .] In short, his contributions consisted of popular treatises and reference works on 'useful and practical mathematics,'" â Â"William L. Schaaf, DSB X, p. 264. PROVENANCE: Stonor family; A. H. Murray; Michael J. Daley [fl. ca. 1970-75]; Frank W. Cousins (who wrote on sundials (1970) and gyroscopes). REFERENCES: Cigola, Michela (ed.), Distinguished Figures in Descriptive Geometry and Its Applications for Mechanism Science, from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century. Springer, (2016). N° de réf. du vendeur RW1593

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Titre : Usage du Compas de Proportion, et de ...

Éditeur : Chez Charles-Ant. Jombert, 1748., Paris:

Date d'édition : 1748

Reliure : Couverture rigide