Dissertazione meccanica di due strumenti che possono servire alla giusta stima del viaggio maritimo e della velocita delle acque. .
Florence: nella Stamperia Imperiale, 1752.
1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #003025
22 June 1752. 8vo (179 x 129 mm). xxiii [1], 124 pp. Signatures: [par]12 A-G8 H6. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 4 folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled goatskin, spine with gilt decoration and lettering, blind-ruled boards (extremities rubbed, corners bumped), red-dyed edges. Text quite crisp and clean with only very minor spotting in places, faint dampstain to gutter of title-page, fraying to fore-edge of one plate. Provenance: Antonianum Univ. Coll. (red ink stamp to p.19, erased stamp and shelf marks on title-page); Provenance: Giancarlo Beltrame Library. Very good copy, collated complete. ----
Riccardi I, 634:5. - RARE FIRST EDITION of Ximenes treatise on hydraulics which contains a description of his improved instruments for measuring water flow velocity and sea drift. In this work, he illustrates two mechanical devices conceived and constructed by him: the 'stadera a molla' (spring strut) and the ' tamburo con ruote a ventola' (drum with fan wheels), two instruments able to determine the variation of the speed of a fluid in different layers (superficial, intermediate and deep). These hydrometric techniques, developed by him undoubtedly constituted a considerable contribution to the development of the new physical discipline. - Visit our website for additional images and information.
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