A treatise of the motion of water, and other fluids : with the origin of fountains or springs, and the cause of winds. In which Treatise, the Manner of Levelling or Conducting Rivers, in Order to make them Navigable; the making of Aqueducts for the Supply of Gentlemens Seats; the whole Art of contriving and making Jetts of Water for Fountains; and the Manner how to proportion the Strength of Pipes for conveying Water from any Height, are plainly demonstrated from the Laws of Hydrostaticks, by above a Hundred Curious Experiments. Written originally in French, by the learned M. Marriotte, Member of the Royal Academy at Paris. And translated into English, with several Annotations for Explaining the doubtful Places, by J. T. Desaguliers, M. A. F. R. S. Chaplain to the Right Honourable James Earl of Caernarvon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mariotte, Edmé, ca. 1620-1684.

Standardized Title:

Traité du mouvement des eaux et des autres corps fluides. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hydraulics--Early works to 1800.

Hydraulics.

Hydrostatics--Early works to 1800.

Hydrostatics.

Genre:

Addresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii,[1],290,[2]p.,VII plates )

Other Title:

Treatise of the motion of water, and other fluids

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Senex at the Globe in Salisbury-Court, Fleetstreet, and W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXVIII. [1718]

Notes:

With a final advertisement leaf.

The identical work was issued in the same year as: 'The motion of water, and other fluids.'.

A translation of: 'Traité du mouvement des eaux et des autres corps fluides'.

Variant: "Fluids:" in the title has failed to print.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T122614.

OCLC:

642334556