Teatro de los instrvmentos y figvras matematicas y mecanicas. Libro muy vtil y necessario para todos estados de personas / Compuesto par Diego Besson, con las interpretaciones de cada figura, echas por Francisco Beroaldo.

  • Besson, Jacques (Mathematician)
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1602
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Teatro de los instrvmentos y figvras matematicas y mecanicas. Libro muy vtil y necessario para todos estados de personas / Compuesto par Diego Besson, con las interpretaciones de cada figura, echas por Francisco Beroaldo. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Publication/Creation

En Leon de Francia : For Horacio Cardon, 1602.

Physical description

64 unnumbered leaves : 60 illustrations, woodcut title page, engr. plates ; (folio)

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Edition

Nvevamente impresso.

Notes

Signatures: 3 l. unsigned, B-Q⁴ (last verso blank)
Sixty numbered plates, with text on verso of preceding leaf
Title within elaborate border ; initials, head and tail pieces, similar to those in earlier versions
Dedication to the "Dvqve de Lerma" signed : Horacio Cardon [perhaps the translator]
Translated apparently from the French edition printed at Geneva in 1594 by Jacques Chouët & Jean de Laon. In an earlier French edition, Lyon, 1579, the text is at the beginning, only the propositions printed on the plates
Originally published in Latin with title: Instrumentorum et machinarum.

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