Veterum Mathematicorum Athenaei Bitonis Apollodori Heronis Philonis Et Aliorum Opera Nunc

by Jean Boivin Philippe De La Hire Melchisedech Thevenot

$14,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Typographia Regia, 1693. First edition of this collection of early Greek writings on technology especially military technology and hydrostatics. It contains several treatises on the mechanics and siege operations, or poliorcetica, used in the Hellenistic period the period between Alexander and Augustus , including the construction and management of their projectile engines. The first six works in the

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