Edme Mariotte - Traité du mouvement des eaux et des autres corps fluides divisé en V parties - 1700

MARIOTTE (Edme).

Treatise on the movement of waters and of the other fluid bodies divided into five parts.

Paris, at Jombert, 1700.

1 volume in-12 (16 x 9 cm), speckled calf (binding of the period), spine with raised bands ornamented, title piece in tawny morocco, sprinkled edges, bookplate, manuscript annotations on the guards and the title, [12]-390-[18] pages (complete). One corner worn, tear on one cover and the headcap, cracked hinges, rare foxing. Acceptable condition.

Second edition (the first appeared at La Hire in 1686) illustrated with in-text wood-engraved figures.

This physicist is considered the founder in France of experimental physics. He is one of the first members of the Academy of Sciences. From the year of its foundation, in 1666, he is called to sit there as a physicist. He invents the apparatus then used to measure the impact of elastic bodies and publishes several works. He thus aims to verify by experiment the truth of the principles established by Galileo, Pascal, Torricelli, as he presents in this work. He developed the "Mariotte bottle" to study atmospheric pressure and his "Mariotte's law" is well known to physicists.

Pleasant copy.