Jacques Rohault - Traité de physique - 1723





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Jacques Rohault’s *Traité de physique* is a 1723 French reprint, volume I only, in a leather binding with 418 pages and a folding plate.
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Jacques Rohault. Treatise of Physics. Paris, Guillaume Desprez, Jean Dessartz, 1723, (17) ff., 418 pp. and 1 folding plate
One volume 12mo (170x95 mm), full calf, spine with raised bands ornamented (binding of the period). Wear and rubbing on the boards and the spine, headcap shaved. Interior fresh.
New edition illustrated with figures in the text and with a folding plate; volume I only (of two)
Jacques Rohault's Treatise of Physics outlines the principles of Descartes' natural philosophy and seeks to explain the phenomena of the material world by the laws of motion and the properties of matter. The author combines theoretical reasoning with observation and experience.
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Jacques Rohault. Treatise of Physics. Paris, Guillaume Desprez, Jean Dessartz, 1723, (17) ff., 418 pp. and 1 folding plate
One volume 12mo (170x95 mm), full calf, spine with raised bands ornamented (binding of the period). Wear and rubbing on the boards and the spine, headcap shaved. Interior fresh.
New edition illustrated with figures in the text and with a folding plate; volume I only (of two)
Jacques Rohault's Treatise of Physics outlines the principles of Descartes' natural philosophy and seeks to explain the phenomena of the material world by the laws of motion and the properties of matter. The author combines theoretical reasoning with observation and experience.

