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Rosa,L.

Della nuova bilancia a ponte a cinque leve ad un sol punto. Milano, Angelo Stanislao Brambilla 1821. 8°. 19 pp. with 4 folded handcol. Copper plates. Expanded second edition; the first edition was published in 1816 with 14 pp. and only 2 copper plates. - L. Rosa, a mechanic and scale maker in Milan since 1791, describes here his new weighbridge, which was to replace the weighbridge by Charles Merlin from Strasbourg in northern Italy. C. Merlin applied for a patent for his scales in 1803 (see K. E. Haeberle: 10,000 Jahre Waage. p. 136 ff.). - A description of the balance (pp. 3-10) is followed by three appendices: 1. Estratto dei guidizj del Cesareo Regio Istituto si Scienze, Lettere ed Arti per l'aggiudicazione de' Premj del dì 4 Ottobre 1815 (Comparison of the balances of Giovanni Catlinetti and Luigi Rosa). - 2. spiegazione delle tavole I. II. III (!) (descriptions of plates I-III). - 3. a comparison of the previously used and the new scales. - Title page slightly brownstained, very good clean copy.

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Rosa,L.

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