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Item #5201 Mechanica: sive de motu, tractatus geometricus. Pars prima. In qua, De motu generalia....

WALLIS, John.

Mechanica: sive de motu, tractatus geometricus. Pars prima. In qua, De motu generalia. De gravium descensu, & motuum declivitate. De libra (Pars secunda. In qua, De centro gravitates. Ejusque calculo; Pars tertia...

London: William Godbid for Moses Pitt, [1669-] 1671. First edition, very rare when complete with the portrait and all three parts, of this classic treatise on mechanics by Newton’s most important English precursor. It treats both statics (the balance, the lever, centres of gravity, elasticity, and hydrostatics) and dynamics (including..... More
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Item #5498 Peri optikes [in Greek], id est de natura, ratione, & projectione radiorum visus,...

WITELO.

Peri optikes [in Greek], id est de natura, ratione, & projectione radiorum visus, luminum, colorum atque formarum, quam vulgo perspectivam vocant, libri X.

Nuremberg: Johann Petri, 1535. First edition, rare, a copy with numerous early annotations, of the first comprehensive European treatise on optics, and the first work to contain descriptions of medieval laboratory instruments. Witelo (born ca. AD 1230) begins with the geometrical theorems required for the optical demonstrations of the remaining..... More
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