Traitez de mechanique, de l'equilibre des solides et des liqueurs. 1679.
Dollfus's copy
LAMY, Bernard. Traitez de mechanique, de l'equilibre des solides et des liqueurs.
Paris, André Pralard, 1679.
700 €
12mo (15x8.5 cm), (2)-263-(1) pages and one folding plate. illustration: 71 woodcuts in text and one folding plate. binding: Contemporary full brown calf, spine gilt in six compartments lettered in gilt. Head of spine worn.
Lamy Bernard (Le Mans 1640, Rouen, 1715).
He taught grammar, rhetoric and philosophy at Saumur and Angers.
Great defender of the Cartesian philosophy, he was sentenced to exile these ideas.
He became professor at Grenoble, where he published books which were very well received by scholars and the public.
FIRST EDITION.
references: DSB [VII,611].
provenance: Audouin DOLLFUS, astronome (modern engraved armorial bookplate).
Audouin Dollfus (1924-2010) discovered Janus, the small moon of Saturn.
