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Musschenbroek, Pieter van (1692-1761) Physicae Experimentales et Geometricae de Magnete, Tuborum Capillarium Vitreorumque.
Leiden: Samuel Luchtmans, 1729.
First edition, quarto, title page printed in red and black; ex libris Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) with his signature on title; illustrated with thirty-two folding engravings (two numbered plates, twenty-eight numbered plates, and two unnumbered plates), including a large folding Ephemerides Meteorolgicae Ultrajectinae for 1728; a handsome copy in a worn contemporary binding, aeg, full French calf, rubbed, front joint cracked, some light damage to endcaps, endbands intact, 9 1/2 x 7 in.
Musschenbroek's early textbook of experimental physics contains sections on magnetism, capillary action, the size of the earth, the relative strengths of building materials, and meteorological observations, all illustrated. Other than the signature on the title, no further notes of Buffon occur in the text.
DSB IX, 597; Wheeler Gift 268; Wolf II, 517-19; Graesse IV 637.
