La manière universelle de Mr. Desargues lyonnais pour poser l'essieu & placer les heures & autres choses aux cadrans au soleil

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Plein vélin rigide de l'époque. Un volume in-8 (205x137 mm), frontispice gravé, (6)-28-68 pages et 34 feuillets incluant un titre additionel et 66 planches gravées. Manque de vélin en haut et en bas du dos. Piqûres de vers au plat supérieur, sans atteinte au corps d'ouvrage. Mouillures en marge inférieure, sans gravité. Édition originale de cet ouvrage recherché et magnifiquement illustré par Abraham Bosse (1602-1676) qui était l'un des plus fervent défenseur de Desargues. References : Kemp [in. The Science of Art, pp. 120-123 Desargues (1591-1661) , was the "greatest perspectivist and projective geometer of his generation. Desargues was a civil and military engineer, an architect specialising in staircase design and above all a geometer of extraordinary spatial vision. His intellectual ambition was expressed in two closely-related aspirations: the building of a geometry of position (i.e. non-metrical) based on projective techniques; and the provision of all-embracing methods of geometrical operation for practitioners in various fields . In 1643, Bosse brought out the first of the publications in which he expounded Desargue's views. These consisted of treatises devoted to -- manières universelles -- for the cutting of stones in architectures according to the principles of projective geometry and the making of sundials, etc. These attracted new assaults, this time from an expert in stonecutting, Curabelle, who devoted three pamphlets to the criticism of Desargues's works"]. Desargues : DSB, IV, pp.46-51. Bosse : DSB, II, pp. 333-34. ___________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ENGLISH_DESCRIPTION : Contemporary full stiff vellum. 8vo (205x137 mm), frontispiece, (6)-68 pages, one additionnal engraved title and 66 plates (some are repeated). Caps worn. Wormhole on the front cover. Waterstains, in the blank lower margin. First edition, beautifully illustrated by Abraham Bosse (1602-76), who was Desargues's most ardent propagandist. This is an important work in the "French perspective wars" from 1630-80. References : Kemp [in. The Science of Art, pp. 120-123 Desargues (1591-1661) , was the "greatest perspectivist and projective geometer of his generation. Desargues was a civil and military engineer, an architect specialising in staircase design and above all a geometer of extraordinary spatial vision. His intellectual ambition was expressed in two closely-related aspirations: the building of a geometry of position (i.e. non-metrical) based on projective techniques; and the provision of all-embracing methods of geometrical operation for practitioners in various fields . In 1643, Bosse brought out the first of the publications in which he expounded Desargue's views. These consisted of treatises devoted to -- manières universelles -- for the cutting of stones in architectures according to the principles of projective geometry and the making of sundials, etc. These attracted new assaults, this time from an expert in stonecutting, Curabelle, who devoted three pamphlets to the criticism of Desargues's works"]. Desargues : DSB, IV, pp.46-51. Bosse : DSB, II, pp. 333-34. 346g. Seller Inventory # M2686

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