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's GRAVESANDE (Willem Jacob): Physices elementa mathematica, experimentis confirmata Sive Introductio ad philosophiam Newtonianam. Editio tertia duplo auctior. Leyden, J.A. Langerak and J. and H. Verbeek, 1742. Two volumes. 19,5 by 24,5 cm. (4)-LXXXVI-(2)-572; 573 to1073-(43) pages. With 127 folding plates of various experiments (complete). Full contemporary calf, spine with five raised bands, decorated boards, red title page, with minor defects: headpieces missing, two jaws split over a few centimeters. Freckles, some pages browned. Wormholes on a few leaves, in the margins, with loss of very rare characters. In spite of these defects, a quite suitable and complete copy. Gravesande, a great scientist of his time, supported Newton's theories, but especially experimental physics. He worked among others on the dilation of volumes.
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