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BION, Nicolas. Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instrumens de mathématique. 1725.
BION, Nicolas.
Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instrumens de mathématique.
Paris, Brunet, Ganeau, Robustel & Osmont, 1725.
4to(248x196 mm), (8)-431-(9) pages, frontispiece and thirty-seven folding plates of mathematicals instruments. binding : Full marbled fawn calf. Spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, titled in gilt on lettering-piece. Red edges. Caps repaired. Foxing, plate 20 with old repairs.
Bion had an instrumentation workshop in Paris.
He seems to have made globes, sundials, mathematical instruments, and mechanical machines with equal accuracy.
In the "Traité de la construction.." he gives a fairly complete list of instruments normally constructed during the first quarter of the eighteenth century.
His treatise was more for the user and the amateur than for the manufacturer. (DSB)
THIRD EDITION, THE FIRST WITH 37 ENGRAVED FOLDING PLATES.
references: DSB [II, 132], Polak [842].
Price : 900 €
European VAT number: FR87515091171
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