FREE SHIPPING WORLWIDE
WE ACCEPT
Your selection
BESSON, La Pratique de Géometrie, 1626
BESSON, François.
La Pratique de Géometrie.
Paris, Jean Moreau, 1626.
4to (232x180 mm), (4)-225-(2) pages. binding : XXth century quarter sheep, flat spine. Binding rubbed. Paper stain on first booklets. A corner broken.
First edition.
The work is divided into three books:
- Macrometry or the science of measuring straight lines.
- Holometry or the measurement of plane surfaces.
- Stereotomy or the measurement of solid bodies.
As well as Books IV and XIII of Euclid in an unpublished French translation for which Besson provides new applications.
references: Marc Lacoarret ["Les traductions françaises des œuvres d'Euclide", 1957: "Les deux livres d'Euclide se trouvent pp. 105-194. Besson y ajoute de nouvelles propositions et des applications."].
provenance: Ex libris Pierre Noiset on title page.
Price : 500 €
European VAT number: FR87515091171
© Eric Zink, Antiquarian Bookseller