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VARIGNON, Traité du mouvement, 1725
VARIGNON, Pierre || PUJOL (Abbé).
Traité du mouvement et de la mesure des eaux coulantes et jaillissantes.
Paris, Pissot, 1725.
4to (246x187 mm), xv-(1)-181-(1) pages and 11 folding plates. binding : Contemporary full calf, gilt spine in six compartments. Copy to be restored. Plates and flyleaves detached.
First edition.
The work is based on the posthumous manuscripts of Pierre Varignon, edited by Abbé Pujol. Varignon addresses in particular the problem of the Torricelli flow.
references: Rouse ["History of hydraulics", p.89 : "[...] its bearing on the momentum-energy controversy. Varignon sought to analyze Torricelli's problem of efflux through use of the momentum principle by assuming that the weight of the liquid column directly above the orifice suddenly imparted momentum to the liquid as it emerged from the container. "].
Price : 200 €
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