Jacques Ozanam - Recréations mathématiques et physiques : Arithmétique - 1750

Rare illustrated edition with 30 engraved plates from this first volume of Jacques Ozanam’s Mathematical and Physical Recreations, which serves as an introduction to a vast collection of problems, curiosities, and experiments designed to make mathematics and the physical sciences both accessible, appealing, and intellectually stimulating - The work opens with general considerations on the usefulness of mathematics, presented as an essential tool for understanding the world, solving practical problems, and developing the rigor of reasoning, before moving on to a progressive series of exercises and questions aimed at waking the reader’s curiosity - This first volume focuses particularly on Arithmetic - Jacques Ozanam - Mathematical and Physical Recreations, which contain several problems in arithmetic, geometry, music, optics, gnomonics, cosmography, mechanics, pyrotechnics, & physics - 1750 - Volume I - Jacques Rollin, son - 460 pages. Condition: fair binding, the work in its full period marbled calf leather, epidermures, wear of use, some minor defects on boards and spine (notably small holes on the spine, and some loss of material on the rear board), torn headcap, worn joints, dented corners, red edges, spine with gilt tooling, titling and volume number gilded on a brown morocco piece - Good interior condition, some foxing, small vignette on the title page, pretty headbands, tailpieces, a fine drop cap, work enriched with 30 engraved plates, marbled endpapers in good condition, a pleasant copy - Delivery service guaranteed within a few days -

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