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Bernard Forest de Bélidor : La Science des Ingenieurs dans la Contuite des Travaux de Fortification et d’Architecture Civil

Charles-Antoine Jombert, Paris, 1739

contemporary full molted calf, spine with 6 compartments of raised bands, red morocco label on two and three, all edges tinted red., Lack the frontis piece otherwise a very good copy., 4to, P. title, blank, (13), 1-80; 1-64; 1-96; 1-104; 1-80; 1-80, index (9), 53 mostly folding plates of, tables, plans, maps and diagrams. Elaborated head and tail pieces, decorative initials, title page contains a printer’s device., Volume : 6 parts in 1 volume

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This volume contains practical experiments by Belidor on the flexure and rupture of beams. The first two parts of the book deal with mechanics as they apply to engineering and construction of foundations.
Bernard Forest de Bélidor was a French engineer, significant to the development of the science of hydraulics. He was professor of artillery at the school of Fère-en-Tardenois in Aisne. For a while he worked on measuring the arc of the earth. In the years to come he published several works of great importance, on a wide range of subjects, including hydraulics, mathematics, and civil and military engineering. His most famous book is L'architecture hydraulique., Bibliotheca Mechanica pg. 30; Graesse I 324; Brunet I pg. 740

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