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DESAGULIERS, JOHN THEOPHILUS. Cours de Physique Expérimentale. French translation by Esprit Pezenas, S.J. 78 folding engraved plates. [2], xii, [2], 503, [5]; [4], iv, 636, 6 pages, including half-titles and errata leaves. 2 volumes. 4to, 256x192 mm, contemporary mottled calf gilt; marginal dampstaining at beginning and end of Volume 1 affecting some plates. Paris: Jacques Rollin & Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1751
first edition in french of the author's 1734-44 Course of Experimental Physics, a collection of lectures chiefly on practical mechanics, popularizing Newtonian ideas. Bibliotheca Mechanica, pages 90-91 (original edition); DSB IV, 45.
