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PASCAL, BLAISE. Traitez de l'Equilibre des Liqueurs, et de la Pesanteur de la Masse de l'Air. 2 folding engraved plates (each with short repaired clean tear). [28], 232, [7] pages. 12mo, 143x83 mm, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked; contents generally clean. Paris: Guillaume Desprez, 1663
first edition of a posthumously published treatise on hydrostatics, "a remarkable synthesis of new knowledge and theories elaborated since the work of Stevin and Galileo . . . indisputably a classic of seventeenth-century science" (DSB). Bibliotheca Mechanica, pages 246-47; Dibner, Heralds of Science 143; DSB X, 334; Tchemerzine (1977) IV, 59.
