Les mechaniqves de Galilée ... : avec plvsievrs additions rares, & nouuelles, vtiles aux architectes, ingenieurs, fonteniers, philosophes, & artisans / traduites de l'italien par L.P. M[arin] M[ersenne]

Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 · 1634 · A Paris : Chez Henry Gvenon ... · 21 pictures

Les mechaniqves de Galilée, published in Paris in 1634 by Henry Guénon, is a French translation by Marin Mersenne of Galileo's treatise on mechanics, aimed at architects, engineers, fountain makers and craftsmen. The pictures are plain geometric diagrams of circles, levers and inclined planes, drawn with lettered points and dotted construction lines that a designer could use as clean schematic vocabulary for mechanical motion.

Mechanics -- Early works to 1800

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