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Livres anciens et modernes

Hero Alexandrinus.

Spiritalium liber.

Amsterdam, Johann Jansson Waesberge, 1680.,

1500,00 €

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(Wien, Autriche)

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Détails

Auteur
Hero Alexandrinus.
Éditeurs
Amsterdam, Johann Jansson Waesberge, 1680.
Thème
Medicine, Science, Engineering, Natural History
Langues
Anglais

Description

4to (155 x 208 mm). (4), 120 pp. With 82 engravings in the text. Early 19th century full calf with green labels to gilt spine. Marbled endpapers. First printing of this Latin edition, based on Federico Commandino's translation. Includes Giambattista Aleotti's "Quatuor theoremata spiritualia" (in Latin translation). A very prettily illustrated work showing the fountains, water-powered machines, and hydraulic organs described by the Greek mathematician and engineer Hero of Alexandria in the first century A.D. - Well-preserved. - Hoffmann II, 217. Graesse III, 258.