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LA HIRE, PHILIPPE DE. Traité de Mécanique. Numerous woodcut text illustrations and diagrams. [12], 492 pages. 12mo, 158x96 mm, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt; contents generally clean. Paris: Imprimerie Royale for Jean Anisson, 1695
first edition. "The work represents an important step on the way to a modern manual of practical mechanics which might be used by engineers in various disciplines. Unfortunately, as La Hire disregarded Newton's laws of dynamics and the infinitesimal methods, the treatise was already out of date at the time of its appearance"--Bibliotheca Mechanica, page 192; DSB VII 578.
