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[ALENCÉ, Joachim d']

Traittez des barométres, thermométres, et notiométres, ou hygrométres
Amsterdam
Henry Wetstein
1688
€300 - €450

In-12°, [xii], 139, [4] pp, titre gravé (Schoonebeek) (marge renforcée), 35 planches gravées (représentant l'usage des différents instruments scientifiques). Déchir. habillement rest. dans la p. 16, sinon un bel exemplaire, complet. Reliure du 19me siècle en 3/4 maroquin bordeaux, tête dorée, titre et fleurons dorés sur le dos

Provenance:
bibl. de Sailly.
Ref. Wellcome, II, 28 ; Krivatsy 193. Brunet V, 991. 'His detailed description of the principal meteorological instruments of the period is enriched with several new ideas such as the calibration of the thermometric scale on the basis of two points of change of state: the point at which water freezes and - a much more contestable point - that at which butter melts' (DSB).

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