Catalogue 32
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Scientific Instruments
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An Unusually Fine Example Of An
Early American Backstaff
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HAM, James. Backstaff, fruitwood frame with two boxwood arcs. 1759.
Rare, early American-made back-staff, one of the principle
instruments of navigation throughout the 17th and 18th centuries.
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[HUYGENS] WEIGEL, Erhard / EBELL, Heinrich Christoph. Q.D.B.V. Pendulum de Tetracty deductum. Jena, Johann Werther, 1674.
Rare first and sole edition of this university thesis on the pendulum published just a year after Huygens' Horologium Oscillatorium, and mentioned by the author.
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[SAVARY, Thomas?]. Podrobnoe Opissanie Parovoi Mashiny, ustroennoi v Velikobritanii izobtashatalemsh oniya T. Saveri... Saint Petersburg, 1817.
An early Russian technical book describing an atmospheric steam engine for pumping water.
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