L' Optique. Comprenant la cognoissance de l'oeil de la lumiere, et des couleurs. Quantité d'experiences touchant la veuë. Diuerses façons d'agir, ou d'eclairer, directament, par reflexion, ou par refraction. L'appareil contenant les fonctions des principales parties de l'oeil . Les miroirs ardens, & leurs effects / Le cours de mathematique, representé par figures & clairement expliqué, avec quantité de connoissances & pratiques nouvelles. Le tout en faveur de la noblesse (etc.).

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L' Optique. Comprenant la cognoissance de l'oeil de la lumiere, et des couleurs. Quantité d'experiences touchant la veuë. Diuerses façons d'agir, ou d'eclairer, directament, par reflexion, ou par refraction. L'appareil contenant les fonctions des principales parties de l'oeil . Les miroirs ardens, & leurs effects. Paris: F. Pelican, 1645. 16 unnumbered leaves with 15 full-page engravings. [Bound before:]. Le cours de mathematique, representé par figures & clairement expliqué, avec quantité de connoissances & pratiques nouvelles. Le tout en faveur de la noblesse (etc.). Paris: F. Pelican, 1645. Text & plates intermixed, generally facing, with text printed on verso of preceding plate. Some leaves, both of text and of illustration, printed on one side only. The engravings are the work of Alexandre Boudan, several of them signed. 83 (of 90) unnumbered leaves with 72 (of 75) full-page engravings, including 3 plate-only leaves (signed I, CX, and FP) cut-down to plate-mark and pasted on blank rectos of adjacent leaves, further 5 plate-leaves with erroneous engravings corrected with paste-overs. Folio (295 x 195 mm). Contemporary limp vellum, original endpapers (heavily soiled, spotted and wrinkled). Interior little browned and dust-soiled in outer margins, occasional minor spotting, dog-earing and ink soiling; old repair of clean tear to advert. leaf. Provenance: 17th century ownership inscriptions to front pastedown and first title. ---- EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST EDITION with both works often found bound together. See de Backer-Sommervogel II, 30, 8; Roller-Godman 149 (both "troisième édition", at Benard 1661, 8vo); Jordan 416 (1651?). Contains tables on pure and applied geometry, fortress construction and cosmography. Both works were published anonymously. For notes on the identification of the author and on earlier editions see article by P.S. Jones, Scripta mathematica, vol. XIII, 1947, p. 119-120. Pierre Bourdin (1595-1653) taught mathematics at the Jesuit college in La Flêche. He was involved in an argument with Descartes about his "Méditations." - Visit our website to see more images!. N° de ref. del artículo 003603

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