The use of the geometrical playing-cards, as also a discourse of the mechanick powers. By Monsi. Des-Cartes. Translated from his own manuscript copy. Shewing what great things may be performed by mechanick engines in removing and raising bodies of vast weights with little strength or force
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- The use of the geometrical playing-cards, as also a discourse of the mechanick powers. By Monsi. Des-Cartes. Translated from his own manuscript copy. Shewing what great things may be performed by mechanick engines in removing and raising bodies of vast weights with little strength or force
- Traité de la mécanique. English
- Geometre and the mechanick powers represented in a pack of playing cards.
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London: printed and sold by J. Moxon at the Atlas in Warwick-Lane, 1697.
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- 1697
- ESTC No.
- R17477
- Grub Street ID
- 67869
- Description
- [2], 85 p. and 52 cards : ill. ; 8°.
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- Translation of: Traité de la mécanique
After p. 85 there are fifty-two engraved playing cards illustrated with geometric designs (followed by a title page and imprint for them): "Geometre and the mechanick powers represented in a pack of playing cards made and sold by J Moxon att the Attlas in Warwick Lane London."; Imperfect: t.p. and p. 85 badly mutilated and mounted
Signatures: [A]]2, B-G]8 (- G4-8)