Traicté de la mesure des eaux courantes [Della misura dell’acque correnti] … traduit de’italien en françois. Avec un discours de la jonction des mers… Ensemble un traicté du mouvement des eaux d’Evangeliste Torricelli [De motu aquarum] … Traduit du latin en françois [by Pierre Saporta] [– Observation sur Synesius (by Fermat)].
Castres: F. Barcouda, 1664. First edition in French, very rare, of two works by Castelli and Torricelli which founded the modern science of hydraulics, and including an original contribution by Fermat which is published for the first time in this work – only two other scientific works of Fermat were..... More
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