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Couverture rigide. Zustand: Assez bon. Plein veau marbré de l'époque, dos à cinq nerfs orné et doré portant les pièces de titre et de tomaison, tranches rouges. Deux volumes in quarto (249x193 mm), (2)-xii-(2)-503-(5) pages et 32 planches dépliantes hors texte / (4)-iv-636-(6) pages et 46 planches dépliantes hors texte. Au total, 78 planches. 3 coiffes et coins abîmés, un mors fendu au dernier caisson du second volume. Une étiquette manuscrite collée au bas du dos du volume 1. Au premier volume, galeries de vers mineures. Au second, galeries de vers mineures au 3/4 du volume, qui s'accentuent fortement ensuite jusqu'à la fin du texte (atteinte au texte) et aux planches. Première édition en français. John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744), l'un des fondateurs de la franc-maçonnerie moderne, fut un fervent défenseur et propagateur des théories d'Isaac Newton. Cet ouvrage, publié à Londres entre 1725 et 1727, se base donc sur les théories de Newton. ___________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ENGLISH_DESCRIPTION : Contemporary full mottled calf, spine gilt in six compartments, title and volume number in gilt on lettering-pieces, red edges. Two 4to (249x193 mm), (2)-xii-(2)-503-(5) pages and 32 folding plates / (4)-iv-636-(6) pages and 46 folding plates. In total, 78 plates. 3 caps and corners chipped. One joint splitted on the last compartment of the second volume. A handwritten tag glued on the bottom of the spine of volume 1. Minor worms's holes on the first volume. On the second, minor works of worms at 3/4 of the volume, which are then very accentuated to the end of the text (lack of lines of the text) and the plates. First edition in French. John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744), one of the founders of modern Freemasonry. This book, published in London between 1725 and 1727, is based on Newton's theories, of which Desaguliers was a fervent defender and propagator of his scientific, philosophical and political ideas. 3169g.

[(26], 483, [24]; [16], 510, [2]; [8], 250, [66] pp.Second edition in Dutch of a syllabus of lectures by a British natural philosopher, reprinting the first two volumes and adding a third volume that appears here in translation for the first time. The son of Huguenot refugees, Desaguliers (1683-1744) studied at Christ Church, Oxford and succeeded James Keill as lecturer in experimental philosophy at Hart Hall. "Desaguliers' practical abilities aroused the Royal Society's interest soon after his arrival in London . at Newton's suggestion, he was invited to repeat some of Newton's experiments on heat; before long he had become a de facto curator of experiments" (DSB). Desaguliers was highly skilled in practical mechanics, improving numerous devices, and described and demonstrated a great number of experiments. For the benefit of his audience, Desaguliers published a number of his lectures in 1717 and in 1719 others appeared in an unauthorized edition that Desaguliers denounced. Only in 1734 did the first official volume of lectures appear, including a simple treatment of Newton's system of the world and a description of Ralph Allen's railway in Bath. The second volume appeared in 1746. "Desaguliers attributed the ten-year delay before the appearance of his second tome to his desire to improve the treatment of machines, especially waterwheels . Continuing with mechanics, in seven lectures, he discussed impact and elasticity, vis viva and momentum, heat, hydrostatics and hydraulics, pneumatics, meteorology, and more machines. This second volume . entitles Desaguliers to be considered a forerunner of the more advanced knowledge of machinery that characterized the Industrial Revolution" (DSB).With some spotting throughout and the bindings rubbed. The privilege of volume 1 is bound after instead of before the contents; volume 2 with a small wormhole in the lower margin not affecting the text and a hole in the lower margin on pp. 279-301. A good copy of this interesting work on applied physics, with attractive engravings.l Bierens de Haan 1178-1180; DSB IV, pp. 43-46; STCN (12 copies, incl. 6 incomplete).

2 parts in 1 volume, I: [2bl], [viii], 194, [x] pp.+ 13 engraved folding plates, II: [iv], xxiii, [i] pp.+ 3 large folding engraved plates, 21cm., contemporary full vellum binding, few foxing and light browning, modern ex-libris-stamp at front endpaper, very good condition, rare, [John Theophilus Desaguliers, 1683-1744, natural philosopher, scientist and a prominent freemason, born in La Rochelle (Fr.), fled to England in 1683 after the revocation of the edict of Nantes. He was a member of the Royal Society of London (since 1714), a friend of Isaac Newton and is considered as the inventor of the Planetarium], W88386.

Couverture rigide. - chez Jacques Rollin & chez Charles Antoine Jombert, à Paris 1751, In-4 (20,5x26,5cm), (2) xij (2) 503pp. et (4) iv, 636pp., relié. - Edition originale française, rare, dans la traduction de Esprit Pézenas, illustrée de 2 vignettes de titre et 78 planches dépliantes repprésentant des instruments utilisés pour des démonstration de physique. Exemplaire aux armes non identifiées. Reliure en pleine basane porphyre d'époque. Dos à nerfs orné. Pièce de titre de veau beige, pièce de tomaison de basane brune. Un manque en queue du tome I. Léger manque dans le caisson de tête du tome II et dans le caisson de queue. Fente aux mors supérieurs en queue des 2 tomes, sur 1cm. Coins avec des pertes de cuir, de même qu'en bordures. L'emploi de l'acide pour réaliser la marbrure du porphyre a provoqué certaines altérations du cuir, notamment sur le dos, où l'or apparaît en relief et certaines épidermures des plats. Cependant bon exemplaire. Principal exposé de la physique de Newton dont Desaguliers propage les idées dans son ouvrage, idées tant scientifiques que philosophiques et politiques. Il est le premier à percevoir l'ampleur de la révolution newtonienne tant pour la physique que pour la représentation du monde. Il assista Isaac Newton qui devint son ami dans ses travaux expérimentaux de 1713 à 1727 en étant démonstrateur de la Royal Society, année de la mort de Newton. Habile expérimentateur, Il ouvrit ensuite son propre cours privé que la famille royale fréquentait. Les préfaces des deux volumes exposent les enjeux de la physique du 18ème siècle : le développement de la physique expérimentale à coté de la mécanique analytique dans le premier, les débats préliminaires à la naissance du concept d'énergie dans le second. Desaguliers explique qu'il fait des expériences, non pour montrer des curiosités mais pour démontrer des lois, à la manière des mathématiciens, mais sans utiliser le formalisme mathématique qui rebute de nombreuses personnes. Sa méthode, copiée sur celle de Keill, consiste à bâtir ses leçons en raisonnant par étapes : partir de propositions simples, les prouver par des expériences et non par des démonstrations, puis élaborer des propositions plus complexes qui seront ensuite confirmées par des expérimentations. Il convient de ne pas présenter les expériences comme « autant de phénomènes curieux » mais d'en « faire usage pour prouver une suite de propositions philosophiques dans un ordre mathématique » autrement dit, de ne pas faire un « Cours d'Expériences » mais un « Cours de Physique Expérimentale ». Les leçons de Desaguliers portent sur la mécanique et l'hydrostatique. Les leçons concernant l'hydrostatique sont illustrées par des descriptions très précises de dispositifs variés et d'usages divers : les cloches de plongeurs, la machine de Marly ou les machines de Mr Richard Newsham pour éteindre les incendies (qu'on retrouve dans les planches). Auditeur des cours de Desaguliers, l'abbé Nollet s'en inspirera pour rédiger ses leçons de physique expérimentale, mais qui eux, porteront davantage sur l'électricité et l'optique. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND] (2) xij (2) 503pp. et (4) iv, 636pp.

Sm. 4to. [xxii], 201, [5] pp. 10 folding engraved copperplates, 5 figs. (pp. 24, 54, 75, 112), half-title is a publisher's ad for Boerhaave, rear publisher's ads [2 ff.], head and tail-pieces; title edges chipped. With errata. Title (+ p.101) perforated stamp and with a rubber stamp on verso, of the John Crerar Library, eight plates with the ex-library rubber stamp on versos; waterstained throughout. WITH FREQUENT EARLY INK CORRECTIONAL NOTES. Modern half blind-stamped dark calf, gilt spine title, raised bands, marbled paper over boards, new endleaves, bindery ticket at rear: Pat M. Bruno. Inscription on recto of front blank (verso is ad for Boerhaave book), "W. --- 1720 Power." SPURIOUS EDITION OF DESAGULIERS' FAMOUS PRIVATE LECTURES CONTAINING NOTES ON BOYLE'S AIR PUMP AND NEWTON ON COLOR THEORY. FIRST ENLARGED EDITION, early issue, without "All carefully Examined and Corrected by Mr. Desaguliers" on title [which otherwise is re-titled, "Lectures of Experimental Philosophy"]. Includes: Sir Isaac Newton's Colours. Proposition. Lights which differ in Colour, differ also in Degrees of Refrangibility. Initially published without the author's permission and then, by evidence of the printed Preface, agreed to issue the book with an erratum. / There are multiple forms of this edition as different copies collate differently (Andrade, Kenney, Honeyman copies). The Honeyman copy, called a second edition, has two title-pages, and the Preface by Desaguliers, with an imprint of 1719. There are also differences in the title-pages. The fiasco of the unauthorized edition is the cause of the various issue differences. "Perhaps Dawson hoped . . . to ingratiate himself with his patron, but instead he incurred the wrath of the lecturer. Immediately Desaguliers became aware of the book, which he called 'ill put together, sadly transcrib'd and worse corrected', he approached the booksellers. He found that two-thirds of the imprint had already been sold by Messrs Mears, Creake and Sackfield, but they paid him ten guineas 'to pacifie me'. They also promised to insert into all remaining copies a preface that Desaguliers would write, together with a substantial errata. The preface follows the Dawson dedication in some copies of the book entitled, A System of Experimental Philosophy, but precedes it in another version called Lectures in Experimental Philosophy." See: Carpenter, pp. 34-5, 119. / Contents: Mechanical experiments, Mechanical powers & definitions; How to make a heavy Body seem to rise it self; gravity, balance, leaver, pulley, wheel axle, wedge, screw, laws of nature, hydrostatics; Description of Robert Boyle's Air-Pump (uses & experiments); How to make an air vacuum; Barometers, Thermometers, Hydrometers; Catoptrichs; Dioptrichs; Sir Isaac Newton's Colours; Condensing Engine; "Rowley's Horary being a machine to represent the Motion of the Moon about the Earth, and the Earth, Venus and Mercury about the Sun." / The preface, written by Desaguliers himself, explains that this volume of lectures was released "before I designed to publish them." He then retells how Paul Dawson "took a copy of the lectures . . . that they may be service to him when he went thro' my courses, and they were afterwards sold and published without my knowledge." He obtained a copy of the text and made numerous corrections :: thus the micro-print 1 à ½ page errata. The he invites the owner to annotate the book throughout "before he begins to read the lectures." And indeed, the owner named Powers did annotate this copy :: clear evidence he read that Preface. (A2-3). / The DNB asserts that Desaguliers, "held in great esteem by Sir Isaac Newton," "is said to have been the first to deliver learned lectures to general audiences. Lectures by him, at his London house were widely attended and were made attractive by experiments." In addition it mentions that Paul Dawson was responsible for the work and that Desaguliers himself "disavowed" himself of the edition. :: DNB (pp. 850-1). / Nicholas A Hans describes the types of persons attending Desaguliers' lectures: "merchants, craftsmen and clerks, and his private audiences consisted of gentlemen and courtiers and included ladies as well." :: Nicholas A Hans, New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century, (1951), p. 141. / Westfall says of Desaguliers, he "became a fixture at the meetings [of the Royal Society], where he carried out sets of experiments intimately related to various aspects of Newtonian natural philosophy. Some of his experiments, such as the transmission of heat through a vacuum, influenced Newton's views, and other found their way into the third edition of the Principia." :: Never at Rest, pp. 685-6. / Writing for the DSB, A. Rupert Hall, points out that Desaguliers did not produce his own version of these lectures until 1734, "when he took occasion to denounce this unauthorized version. . ." :: DSB, IV, pp. 43-6. / John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744), born at La Rochelle, emigrated to England in 1685 [as a Huguenot refugee, hidden in a tub at 2-years of age], studied at Oxford, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1714. As the Society's experimenter and a close friend of Newton he often verified Newton's theories through experimentation. "In 1717 he published Physico-Mechanical Lectures, an eighty-page abstract of the twenty-two lectures of his course. Although not authorized by Desaguliers, the present work is the first full account of his lectures, edited by his student Paul Dawson. Primarily of interest as a textbook of Newtonian physics, many chemical topics are included. The first issue appeared with the title A System of Experimental Philosophy." / REFERENCES: Bakken [title: "Lectures of experimental philosophy . . . 1719"] pp. 52-3; Goodison, English Barometers 1680-1860, p. 369; Keynes, Boyle, 366, pp. 122-9; Roy G. Neville, I, p. 354 [second issue]; Poggendorff, I, 554; Wellcome II, p. 451; Wheeler 249. Not in Babson, Barchas, Gray, or Verne L. R.

London:: John Nicholson, and Sold by John Morphew, 1712. [Vols. IV-V]: Oxford: Printed by L. Lichfield for John Nicholson. . ., and Sold by John Morphew, 1712., 1712. 5 volumes [complete]. 8vo. (6), x, (4), 1-80, 1-288; (24),1-92, 1-156, 1-72, (8); (16), 1-215, (1), 1-131, (1), (10); (32), 1-185, (7), (14), 1-204, (8); (16), 1-166, (18), (292) pp. "Nearly 200" engraved plates, extensive tables, subscriber's list. Original blind-stamped speckled calf, modern maroon leather gilt-stamped spine labels; joints cracked, volume 1 corner bumped. Ownership gilt-stamps at foot of spine: "FFF" with a floating leg and spur above. Very good. First English edition. Ozanam was a self-taught French mathematician, better known for his writing than for any major discoveries (though he did effect significant improvements on existing logarithmic tables). Nearly the entire first volume is devoted to Euclid's Elements. The work also contains: trigonometry, calculating tables, geometry, geodesy, fortification, mechanics (simple & compound engines), statics, hydrostatics, perspective, geography and dialing. The English edition of the Cursus Mathematicus also contains contributions from the English mathematician J. T. Desaguliers: "In 1712 Desaguliers was also working on Ozanam's Cursus mathematicus. This was a complete course in mathematics in five-volumes, originally in French, and which was 'done into English [. . .] by several hands' for John Nicholson, and again printed by L. Lichfield and sold by John Morphew. Volumes 4 and 5, which treated respectively 'Mechanicks and Perspective' and 'Geography and Dialling,' were specifically said to be translated and 'amended in several places, by J. T. Desaguliers.' [. . .] During his last years in Oxford, Desaguliers was clearly busy not only translating many hundreds of pages of Ozanam's works, but also amending, and even correcting, the French mathematician's works. In the eighteenth century a translator had perhaps more freedom than would be condone today to put his individual mark on the translated text." â Â" Audrey T. Carpenter, John Theophilus Desaguliers, pp. 114-115. Volumes: I. Contains a short Treatise of Algebra, and the Elements of Euclid; II. Arithmetic and Trigonometry, with correct Tables of Logarithms, Sines and Tangents; III. Geometry and Fortification; IV. Mechanics, and Perspective; V. Geography and Dialling.