Bernard Bélidor 1770 Architecture Hydraulique Seconde Partie 60 Folding Plates

Description: Leather. 4to. Published by Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, Libraire du Roi Pour l'Artillerie & le Génie, à l'Image de Notre-Dame, Rue Dauphine, Paris. 1770. xxxvii, 3, 412 pgs. Illustrated with 60 folding plates. Ex-library item with library number present to the front pastedown and the FFEP, with library stamp present to the title page. Bound in 3/4 leather boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have heavy shelf-wear present to the extremities (leather heavily chipped and worn with the hinges exposed; boards rubbed and worn, corners bumped and worn; this would be a nice candidate for a rebinding). Stain present to the bottom edge of the text block that goes through approximately 50% of the binding and discolors the bottom edge of the text block and some of the plates. Text is free of marks. Binding fragile. The finest and most complete 18th c. publication in any language on the subject. (hydraulics, civil engineering, canals, bridges, water mills, dykes.) and also one of the first times that integral calculus is used to solve technical problems. Bernard Forest de Bélidor (1698, Catalonia, Spain – 8 September 1761, Paris, France) was a French engineer, significant to the development of the science of hydraulics and ballistics. He was the son of Jean Baptiste Foret de Belidor, an officer of dragoons, and his wife, Marie Héber but was orphaned at five months old and brought up by the family of his godfather, an artillery officer named de Fossiébourg. Bélidor enlisted in the army at a young age. After leaving the army, he developed an interest in science and engineering, and became professor of artillery at the school of Fère-en-Tardenois in Aisne. For a while he worked on measuring the arc of the earth.In the years to come he published several works of great importance, on a wide range of subjects, including hydraulics, mathematics, and civil and military engineering. His most famous book is L'architecture hydraulique (published in four volumes from 1737-1753). Here, integral calculus is used for the first time in solving technical problems. Bernard Bélidor 1770 Architecture Hydraulique Seconde Partie 60 Folding Plates Description Up For Sale Today is Architecture Hydraulique Seconde Partie Qui Comprends L'Art de Diriger les Eaux De La Mer & Des Rivières A L'avantage De La Defense Des Places, Du Commerce & De L'Agriculture Tome Second Par M Bélidor, Colonel d'Infanterie, Chevalier de l'Ordre Militare de Saint Louis, &c Leather. 4to. Published by Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, Libraire du Roi Pour l'Artillerie & le Génie, à l'Image de Notre-Dame, Rue Dauphine, Paris. 1770. xxxvii, 3, 412 pgs. Illustrated with 60 folding plates. Ex-library item with library number present to the front pastedown and the FFEP, with library stamp present to the title page. Bound in 3/4 leather boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have heavy shelf-wear present to the extremities (leather heavily chipped and worn with the hinges exposed; boards rubbed and worn, corners bumped and worn; this would be a nice candidate for a rebinding). Stain present to the bottom edge of the text block that goes through approximately 50% of the binding and discolors the bottom edge of the text block and some of the plates. Text is free of marks. Binding fragile. The finest and most complete 18th c. publication in any language on the subject. (hydraulics, civil engineering, canals, bridges, water mills, dykes.) and also one of the first times that integral calculus is used to solve technical problems. FROM WIKIPEDIA: Bernard Forest de Bélidor (1698, Catalonia, Spain – 8 September 1761, Paris, France) was a French engineer, significant to the development of the science of hydraulics and ballistics. He was the son of Jean Baptiste Foret de Belidor, an officer of dragoons, and his wife, Marie Héber but was orphaned at five months old and brought up by the family of his godfather, an artillery officer named de Fossiébourg. Bélidor enlisted in the army at a young age. After leaving the army, he developed an interest in science and engineering, and became professor of artillery at the school of Fère-en-Tardenois in Aisne. For a while he worked on measuring the arc of the earth.In the years to come he published several works of great importance, on a wide range of subjects, including hydraulics, mathematics, and civil and military engineering. His most famous book is L'architecture hydraulique (published in four volumes from 1737-1753). Here, integral calculus is used for the first time in solving technical problems. Bélidor was the teacher of Peter the Great’s Ethiopian favourite, Abram Petrovich Gannibal. In November 1726, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. 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Location: Charlottesville, Virginia

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