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BION, THE CONSTRUCTION & PRINCIPAL USES OF MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS 1972
BION, THE CONSTRUCTION & PRINCIPAL USES OF MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS 1972
BION, THE CONSTRUCTION & PRINCIPAL USES OF MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS 1972
BION, THE CONSTRUCTION & PRINCIPAL USES OF MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS 1972
BION, THE CONSTRUCTION & PRINCIPAL USES OF MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS 1972
BION, THE CONSTRUCTION & PRINCIPAL USES OF MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS 1972
BION, THE CONSTRUCTION & PRINCIPAL USES OF MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS 1972

BION, THE CONSTRUCTION & PRINCIPAL USES OF MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS 1972

$ 44.88

Availability: 67 in stock
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Place of Publication: LONDON
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Original/Facsimile: Facsimile
  • Topic: Mathematics
  • Special Attributes: Dust Jacket
  • Condition: VERY GOOD
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Year Printed: 1972
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
  • Subject: Science & Medicine
  • ENGINEERING: SURVEYING
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Cloth
  • Restocking Fee: No

    Description

    Nicolas Bion (1652-1733) and Edmund Stone. THE CONSTRUCTION AND PRINCIPAL USES OF MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS. Published by Holland Press, London, 1972. Tall 4to. [viii], 325, [1] pp. 30 plates, ads. Black cloth, dust jacket. Facsimile reprint of the Second and best English Edition, translated from the French by Edmund Stone. The superb plates illustrate many fine instruments, including the telescope, quadrant, sun dial compass, pendulum clock, various astronomical instruments, and much more. The volumes very slightly bowed, and dust jacket is frayed. Otherwise condition is excellent.
    The title page continues: Translated from the French of M. Bion, chief instrument-maker to the French King. To which are added, the construction and uses of such instruments as are omitted by M. Bion, particularly of those invented or improved by the English. By Edmund Stone. The whole illustrated with thirty folio copper-plates, containing the figures, &c. of the several instruments. The second edition. To which is added, a supplement: containing a further account of some of the most useful mathematical instruments as now improved.