‎"BION, NICOLAI.‎
‎Neu-eröffnete Mathematische Werck-Schule, Oder Gründliche Anweisung, Wie die Mathematische Instrumenten (+) Weitere Eröffnung der neuen Mathematischen Werck-Schule. - [""THE MOST FAMOUS BOOK DEVOTED TO INSTRUMENTS""]‎

‎Franckfurt und Leipzig, Hoffmännischen Buchladen in Nürnberg, 1712 (+) Nürnberg, Conrad Monath, 1717. 4to. In contemporary full vellum with title in contemporary hand to spine. A few dots and mark to extremities and a few annotation to pasted down front end-paper. A very nice copy. (12), 394 pp. + frontispiece and 28 plates"" (8), 48 pp. + 11 plates.‎

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‎First German edition of, according to historian of science David M. Knight, ""the most famous book devoted to instruments"". The work is one of the best of that time on scientific instruments, including the compass of proportion, surveying and astronomical instruments, etc. The short work bound withbound is “written by Doppelmayr and illustrates a number of instruments, which, although claiming to be from Bion’s workshop, do not appear in any of Bion’s French editions. The most inventive are optical-binocular and reflecting telescopes”. (Erwin Tomash). The present work was translated from the French original edition, published in 1709, by J. G. Doppelmayr. Erwin Tomash B161 & B162.‎