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Traité des forces mouvantes : pour la pratique des arts et métiers, avec une explication de vingt machines nouvelles & utiles / par Monsieur de Camus ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Camus, François-Joseph.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Mechanics--Early works to 1800.
- Mechanics.
- Machinery--Early works to 1800.
- Machinery.
- Physics--Early works to 1800.
- Physics.
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 535 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 8 folded leaves of plates : illustrations, diagrams ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Running title of pt. 1: Forces mouvantes
- Running title of pt. 2: Explication des machines
- Fingerprint:
- aiun uxnt itle trqu (3) 1722 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- À Paris : Chez Claude Jombert, ... et Laurent le Conte ..., MDCCXXII [1722]
- Notes:
- Cancel title leaf; previously issued, in the same year and under the same imprint, without subtitle.
- Commonly misattributed to Charles-Étienne-Louis Camus.
- "Seconde partie, touchant l'explication, & la construction de plusieurs machines utiles, inventées par l'auteur.": p. 429-535.
- Errata: p. [540]-[541].
- Woodcuts: title page vignette, ornamental initials, and head- and tailpieces.
- Signatures: *⁸ A-2K⁸ 2L⁸(-2L8).
- Leaves 2D3 and 2D4 signed 2D4 and 2D3, respectively; leaf 2L1 signed L.
- Cited in:
- Poggendorff, J.C. Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch, I, 368
- OCLC:
- 11824919
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