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BION, THE CONSTRUCTION & PRINCIPAL USES OF MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS 1972

$ 44.88

Availability: 67 in stock
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
  • Subject: Science & Medicine
  • Special Attributes: Dust Jacket
  • Binding: Cloth
  • Year Printed: 1972
  • Original/Facsimile: Facsimile
  • Place of Publication: LONDON
  • Language: English
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • ENGINEERING: SURVEYING
  • Condition: VERY GOOD
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Topic: Mathematics

    Description

    Nicolas Bion (1652-1733) and Edmund Stone. THE CONSTRUCTION AND PRINCIPAL USES OF MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS. Published by Holland Press, London, 1972. Tall 4to. [viii], 325, [1] pp. 30 plates, ads. Black cloth, dust jacket. Facsimile reprint of the Second and best English Edition, translated from the French by Edmund Stone. The superb plates illustrate many fine instruments, including the telescope, quadrant, sun dial compass, pendulum clock, various astronomical instruments, and much more. The volumes very slightly bowed, and dust jacket is frayed. Otherwise condition is excellent.
    The title page continues: Translated from the French of M. Bion, chief instrument-maker to the French King. To which are added, the construction and uses of such instruments as are omitted by M. Bion, particularly of those invented or improved by the English. By Edmund Stone. The whole illustrated with thirty folio copper-plates, containing the figures, &c. of the several instruments. The second edition. To which is added, a supplement: containing a further account of some of the most useful mathematical instruments as now improved.