MARIOTTE: Traité du mouvement des eaux et des autres corps f - Lot 19

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MARIOTTE: Traité du mouvement des eaux et des autres corps f - Lot 19
MARIOTTE: Traité du mouvement des eaux et des autres corps fluides. New edition corrected and augmented with rules for water jets. Paris, Jombert, 1718. In-12 contemporary brown calf, spine ribbed and ornamented (headbands and corners worn, spotting with small leather chips on the second plate). Numerous figures in the text and a fold-out plate. In this important treatise, the author verifies Galileo's and Pascal's principles, as well as Toricelli's law on the flow of a liquid through an orifice in a wall, by means of numerous experiments carried out at Chantilly and the Paris Observatory. For several generations of hydraulic engineers, this was the best guide to fountain construction. It also contained a completely new idea for the time: water contains dissolved air. We owe to Mariotte the essential discoveries of the blind spot of the eye, known as the Mariotte spot, and the enunciation of the law of pressure and volume of gases, known as the Boyle-Mariotte law.
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