Physique

1746 · SG36187 — 1746 8, [10], 194, 520 p., num. figures and engraved plates, engraved vignette on title-page, engraved frontispiece depicting Athena holding a portrait of Louis XIV, 10.5 x 17 cm, contemporary full calf, spine with five raised bands and gilt compartments, red label, marbled endpapers. Edges red. Wear on spine and corners. Contemporary paper label with written number on lower end spine, small ex libris (bookplate) on front pastedown, small old library stamp on title-page. Published by Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam.Includes papers by: De la Hire, Nouvelles remarques sur l’aiman, & sur les aiguilles aimantés (17 p.) / Littre, Observations sur les reins d’un foetus humain de neuf mois (10 p., 1 folded plate) / Bernoulli, Veritable hypothese de la resistance des solides... (15 p., 1 plate) / Tournefort, Etablissement de quelques nouveaux genres de plantes (7 p., 1 folded plate) / Varignon, Manometre, ou machine pour trouver le rapoort de raretez ou rarefactions de l’air naturel d’un même lieu endifferens tems.... (41 p., 7 figs) / Littre, Observation sur la matrice d’une fille de deux mois (7 p., 1 plate) / Chomel, Conyza montana / Limodorum montanum (7, 5, 1 folded plate) / and numerous other papers by Amontons (many), Cassini (many), Carré, Homberg, Poupart, Lemery, Boulduc, De Lagny, Geoffroy and Rolley.