L'usage du compas de proportion expliqué et démontré d'une maniere courte & facile & augmentée d'un traité de la division des champs.
Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1688. The rare first edition. Illustrated with 2 plates out of text showing a compass manufactured by Chapotot. "By the time Ozanam decided to write on the sector, it was a well-known instrument and had been developed into many different forms. The text is a description of a simple sector with only a few scales (line of lines, polygons, planes, solids and chords), but these would have sufficed for most of the problems encountered by his readers." Tomash O 69. Very fine copy. 8vo. 138 pp., 2 planches h.-t. Veau, dos à nerfs orné. (Reliure de l'époque.) --------------------Rare première édition. Illustré par 2 planches hors-texte représentant un compas fabriqué par Chapotot. Très bel exemplaire.-. Item #18353
Prix: 750.00 €