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OZANAM (Jacques): Récréations mathématiques et physiques qui contiennent plusieurs problèmes d'arithmétique, (...), de musique, d'optique, de gnomonique, (...) Avec un Traité des horloges élémentaires. Nouvelle édition revûe, corrigée & augmentée. Paris, Jombert, 1735. 4 volumes. 12 by 19.5 cm. (16)-460-(20) and 32 plates; (4)-462-(14) and 56 plates; (2)-482-(12) and 31 plates; (8)-446-(6) and 17 plates (complete). Contemporary full brown speckled calf, 5-rib spine, ornate bindings. Small leather chips on two spines and one headpiece, minor superficial blemishes on boards, not serious. Very good condition inside (endpapers missing from volume 1). The copy is complete with 136 plates. The book offers a playful approach to mathematics, with a number of entertaining problems and new calculation techniques such as "finger multiplication". This edition is considered the most relevant to date, and includes a treatise on elementary clocks by Domenico Martinelli, a long dissertation on perpetual lamps and, above all, "gibecière tricks" (Wikipedia).

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OZANAM (Jacques): Récréations mathématiques et physiques qui contiennent plusieurs problèmes d'arithmétique, (...), de musique, d'optique, de gnomonique, (...) Avec un Traité des horloges élémentaires. Nouvelle édition revûe, corrigée & augmentée. Paris, Jombert, 1735. 4 volumes. 12 by 19.5 cm. (16)-460-(20) and 32 plates; (4)-462-(14) and 56 plates; (2)-482-(12) and 31 plates; (8)-446-(6) and 17 plates (complete). Contemporary full brown speckled calf, 5-rib spine, ornate bindings. Small leather chips on two spines and one headpiece, minor superficial blemishes on boards, not serious. Very good condition inside (endpapers missing from volume 1). The copy is complete with 136 plates. The book offers a playful approach to mathematics, with a number of entertaining problems and new calculation techniques such as "finger multiplication". This edition is considered the most relevant to date, and includes a treatise on elementary clocks by Domenico Martinelli, a long dissertation on perpetual lamps and, above all, "gibecière tricks" (Wikipedia).

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