The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield removed from Shirburn Castle - Part Six: Science P-Z plus Addenda

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Lot 1650
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Poleni, Giovanni (1683-1761).

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Description

  • Poleni, Giovanni (1683-1761).
Miscellanea, hoc est I. Dissertatio de barometris, & thermometris, II. Machinae aritmeticae, eiusque usus descriptio, III. De sectionibus conicis parallelorum in horologiis solaribus tractatus. Venice: Aloysius Pavinus, 1709

Literature

Riccardi ii, 290

Catalogue Note

first edition of Poleni's first book. Poleni was professor of astronomy, physics and mathematics at the University of Padua.

This volume contains Poleni's description of a "pin-wheel" mechanical calculating machine, which he devised after studying those of Pascal and Leibnitz.