| Title | A treatise of mechanicks: or The science of the effects of powers or moving forces as apply'd to machines demonstrated from its first principles: done out of French. : In this translation are inserted particular references to the several propositions in Euclid on which the demonstrations are built: with considerable additions whereby the whole is more compleat and universal and particularly the rising and falling of the quicksilver in the weather-glass explain'd and accounted for. Useful for all artificers as well as natural philosophers and mathematicians Treatise of mechanicks Science of the effects of powers or moving forces Traité de méchanique. English |
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| Description | By Thomas Watts, of the Accomptant's Office, for Qualifying Young Gentlemen for Business., A translation of Jacques Rohault's "Les mhaniques", originally published in 1682 in "Oeuvres posthumes.", With a recommendatory preface by William Whiston., Collation: 8vo: A⁸( -A8) B-L⁸ M1[=A8] [$4 signed]; 88 leaves, pp. [14 unn.] [1] 2-160 [161-162] [misprinting 112 as 102] + plates, 'Tab 1'-'Tab 4'., Title within double line border; head-pieces, initials., Errata: prelim. p. [14] (A7v)., Advertisement, "At the Accomptant's-Office for Qualifying Young Gentlemen for Business, in Abchurch-Lane ... ": prelim. p. [2], facing title., Main Heritage Shelves General, QA804 .R64 1716, Book, Item-ID: i23451439, BIB-ID: 2504258 |
| Publisher | Printed for Edward Symon at the Black Bull in Cornhill; and sold by Francis Clay at the Bible without Temple-Bar |
| Contributor | Rohault Jacques 1618-1672 Watts Thomas. Whiston William 1667-1752 |
| Date | 1716 |
| Format | print, 14 unnumbered pages, 160 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 4 folded leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 20 cm (8vo), unmediated, volume |
| Identifier | QNL:00020257 oclc: 16116356 |
| Language | eng, fre |
| Relation | ESTC |
| Coverage | England--London |
| Rights | No Known Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/NKC/1.0/ |
| Reference | Catalogue Link |