Le bombardier François, ou nouvelle méthode de jetter les bombes avec précision.

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Le bombardier Fran ois, ou nouvelle m thode de jetter les bombes avec pr cision. von Belidor, Bernard Forest de.: Autor(en) Belidor, Bernard Forest de.:Auflage 2. edition.Verlag / Jahr La Compagnie, Amsterdam,, 1734.Format / Einband 26 x 20,5 cm. Original full leather binding. IV, 41, 366 S. Tab. ; 8 Falttaf. ---- with 8 folding copper engravings.Sprache DeutschGewicht ca. 444 gBestell-Nr 12379Bemerkungen Rubbed, joints cracked in places. With one engraved FRontispiz and 8 foldet copper engravings in good condition.Some handwritten explenations on revers of the last engraving. ---------------- Bernard Forest de B lidor (1698, Catalonia, Spain ? 8 September 1761, Paris, France) was a French engineer, significant to the development of the science of hydraulics and ballistics. Portrait of B. Forest de Belidor (1698-1761) (Louis-Gabriel Blanchet, 1752) He was the son of Jean Baptiste Foret de Belidor, an officer of dragoons, and his wife, Marie H ber but was orphaned at five months old and brought up by the family of his godfather, an artillery officer named de Fossi bourg. B lidor enlisted in the army at a young age. After leaving the army, he developed an interest in science and engineering, and became professor of artillery at the school of F re-en-Tardenois in Aisne. For a while he worked on measuring the arc of the earth. In the years to come he published several works of great importance, on a wide range of subjects, including hydraulics, mathematics, and civil and military

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