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JACQUES ROHAULT (1620-1675)
Treatise of mechaniks. London: Edward Symon, 1716. 8° (190 x 113mm). 4 folding plates. (Lacking half-title, but with final 2-leaf gathering M comprising 2pp. contents and advertisement leaf, light browning to plates.) Contemporary panelled calf (worn, head and tail of spine defective, joints splitting, tape repairs to hinges). Provenance: Charles Alexander Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home (1834-1918; engraved armorial bookplate and Hirsel library label).
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, translated by Thomas Watts (d.1742). The ODNB describes Watts as 'mathematician and entrepreneurial agent', who in 1716, the same year as the publication of the present lot, established a school called the Accomptant's Office. The accompanying advertisement in the book shows Watts' institution offering writing, bookkeeping, computation, and many branches of mathematics. Rohault was responsible for popularising Cartesian physics, and his lectures in Paris in the 1650s became celebrated. William Whiston's (1667-1752) preface notes that Humphry Ditton (1675-1715), a close associate of Newton, and mathematical master at Christ's Hospital, first attempted a translation and revision of Rohault, but it was Watts who finally brought it to publication. APPARENTLY UNTRACED AT AUCTION (ABPC/RBH). ESTC T148760.
Treatise of mechaniks. London: Edward Symon, 1716. 8° (190 x 113mm). 4 folding plates. (Lacking half-title, but with final 2-leaf gathering M comprising 2pp. contents and advertisement leaf, light browning to plates.) Contemporary panelled calf (worn, head and tail of spine defective, joints splitting, tape repairs to hinges). Provenance: Charles Alexander Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home (1834-1918; engraved armorial bookplate and Hirsel library label).
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, translated by Thomas Watts (d.1742). The ODNB describes Watts as 'mathematician and entrepreneurial agent', who in 1716, the same year as the publication of the present lot, established a school called the Accomptant's Office. The accompanying advertisement in the book shows Watts' institution offering writing, bookkeeping, computation, and many branches of mathematics. Rohault was responsible for popularising Cartesian physics, and his lectures in Paris in the 1650s became celebrated. William Whiston's (1667-1752) preface notes that Humphry Ditton (1675-1715), a close associate of Newton, and mathematical master at Christ's Hospital, first attempted a translation and revision of Rohault, but it was Watts who finally brought it to publication. APPARENTLY UNTRACED AT AUCTION (ABPC/RBH). ESTC T148760.
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