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PASCAL. On the Equilibrium of Liquids and the Weight of the Mass of Air… Paris: Guillaume Desprez, 1663. In-16, (27)-232-(6) pp. Contemporary mottled fawn sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine, red-speckled edges (rounded corners, trimmed caps, worn clasps, some soiling, one plate slightly creased, one plate missing). Bibliography: Tchemerzine, V, 59. Description: Posthumous first edition, edited by François Périer, his brother-in-law and collaborator, and by the physicist Rohault. The first work to assert that pressure in a liquid is transmitted undiminished in all directions. In its original period binding. By the philosopher and scientist, discoverer and physicist, Blaise Pascal (1623–1662). Illustrated with a fold-out plate engraved in black on copper. In French in the text, 101.
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