‎BOSSUT (Abbé)‎
‎Traité élémentaire d'hydrodynamique - Ouvrage dans lequel la théorie et l'expérience s'éclairent ou se suppléent mutuellement ; avec deux notes sur plusieurs endroits qui ont paru mériter d'être appronfondis -- BEL EXEMPLAIRE -- 2 VOLUMES (complete set)‎

‎P., Jombert, 1775, 2 volumes in 8 reliés en plein veau marbré, dos ornés de fers dorés, étiquettes rouges, tranches rouges (reliures de l'époque), (quelques rousseurs, 2 coins légèrement émoussés), T.1 : (1), 37pp., 396pp., T.2 : (1), 444pp., 16 planches dépliantes numérotées 1 à 9 et 1 à 7‎

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‎---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- Nouvelle édition ---- Etiquette de prix contrecollé au verso du premier plat de couverture au tome 1 : Prix de physique décerné par Bailly en 1789 à l'élève Bernard Violle ---- "One of the important figures in the history of physics and engineering education". (DSB). "Bossut wrote a series of textbooks that won wide acceptance from the 1770's until the early years of the Empire. The texts of Bossut represent the emergence in the eighteenth century of standardized, rigorous system of engineering, physics text-books... In 1761, 1762 and 1765, Bossut won or shared prizes given by the Academy for memoirs on mechanics applied to the operation of ships and on the resistance of the ether in planetary motions. He won additional prizes for his mechanics memoirs...". (DSB II, pp. 334/335) ---- "This work is essentially an outgrowth of the hydrodynamics part of Bossut's course in mathematics. The first volume provides an excellent picture of the state of knowledge at Bossut's time. The experimental data presented in the second volume were largely new, and noteworthy even today are his comments on the difficulty of large-scale experiments versus the falsity of those on too small a scale". (Bibliotheca mechanica)**ARM2D‎