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's GRAVESANDE, Willem Jacob. Essai de perspective. The Hague, la Veuve d'Abraham Troyel, 1711.
12mo. [15.5 x 9 cm], (12) ff., 200 pp., with 32 leaves of engraved plates, (4) ff., 38 pp., (1) f.
$4,850 I. Rare first edition of this “milestone in the gradual transformation of the science of perspective into descriptive geometry.” – Vagnetti Praised by Johan Bernoulli, this important study simplifies the various methods then in practical use, including those dealing with shadows and gnomics. The second part is entitled, Usage de la Chambre Obscure pour le Dessein.
’s Gravesande “was the earliest influential exponent of the Newtonian philosophy in continental Europe.” – DSB 5.509-511 The Essai de Perspective is apparently his earliest published work. An English translation was published in London in 1724 by J. Senex et al.
II. The first edition of D’Alencé's Traitté de L'Aiman, illustrated with 33 full-page plates, summing up the latest knowledge on magnetism of the time. D’Alencé, astronomer and physicist, published the first French ephemerides of a purely scientific nature. He was a close friend of Huygens and Oldenburg and acted as an intermediary between them.
III. One of the most influential treatises on geography of the period, written by the great French cartographer and map publisher Nicholas Sanson.
* I) Vagnetti, EIVb7; II) Wheeler Gift 200.
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