Title: 1787 TREATISE on THEORETICAL & EXPERIMENTAL HYDRODINAMICS 2 VOLUMES antique Description: TRAITE THEORETIQUE ET EXPERIMENTAL D'HYDRODINAMIQUE (TREATISE on THEORETICAL & EXPERIMENTAL HYDRODINAMICS) by Charles Bossut 2 VOLUMES Paris, Imprimerie Royale; 1786-1787 Illustrated with fold out engraved plates Size 6 by 9" Original leather binding Very good interior condition except lack of a few plates. Some wear of the leather Text in French First edition of one of the classic works and the final Bossut's work in hydrodynamics and hydraulics after a Traité élémentaire d'hydrodynamique published in 1771. "Bossut's importance for the history of science lies in his role as a major contributor to European scientific education. His career began in 1752, when he was appointed as professor of mathematics at the École du Génie at Mézières. He remained as professor until 1768, then continued as examiner of students until 1794. His other teaching post was from 1775 to 1780, in the chair of hydrodynamics established by Turgot at the Louvre. For a time he was also examiner of students at the École Polytechnique. Bossut wrote a series of textbooks that appeared in several French and foreign-language editions and won wide acceptance from the 1770's until the early years of the Empire. The texts of Bossut and Étienne Bézout best represent the emergence in the eighteenth century of a standardized, rigorous system of engineering physics textbooks" In the 1786/87, the second volume is particularly interesting as it describes numerous hydraulic experiments. The large and nice plates illustrate many hydraulic machines including two devices which produce steam : the Savery machine, and a later modified machine by Watt and Bolton and built in France by the Périer brothers. Please see my other auctions
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