Mechanicorum Liber

by Guidobaldo del Monte

$19,500 · Offered by Martayan Lan

Rare first edition of the author’s first work, generally regarded as the most important treatise on mechanics since Archimedes and a critical influence on Galileo. The work is notable for its commitment to establishing mechanics on a rigorously mathematical basis, for its powerful argument that mechanics and statics are separate..... More

• Binding: Leather

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