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"ROBINS, BENJAMIN.
Traité de Mathématiques,...contenant: Ses Nouveau Principes D'Artillerie, suivis de plusieurs Discours qui leur servent de supplément, & que M. Wilson son Editeur a inséré dans cet Ouvrage. Traduit de L'Anglois Par M. Dupuy fils. - [WITH ROYAL PROVENANCE]
Grenoble, Joseph-Sulpice Grabit, 1771. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands, richly gilt compartments,titlelabel with guilt lettering. A stamp on htitle and titlepage. XVI,575 pp. and 2 large folded engraved plates. Internally fine and clean. Both covers with the royal coat-of-arms of the Danish king Christian 7.
Reference : 40710
First French edition, translated from Robin's work ""Mathematical Tracts... Vol. I. London 1761"". It contains the authors New Principles of Gunnery together with some of his various mathematical tratises read before the Royal Society, his polemics on the ""vis viva"" etc. and Wilson's personal comments on the life and character of his old friend.
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