CHAUVET (Jacques).

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CHAUVET (Jacques).
The Universal Practice of Geometry. Paris, Henry Thierry, 1585. In-4, granite-cut half calf with small vellum corners, red title piece on first cover, spine decorated, speckled edges (Modern binding in the old taste). Original edition. In his treatise on geometry, Jacques Chauvet, a mathematician from Champagne who lived in the 16th century and taught at the University of Paris, explains his method for measuring the length of all Lines [sic], Surfaces, Soliditez, Circles, Circumferences, Sky, Earth, Sea & all other things that can be seen by means of an instrument of his invention, the cosmometer. 38 figures on wood in the text. The work, for which the poet Jean Dorat composed a laudatory anagram, is dedicated to Anne d'Anglure, the king's nobleman, Baron de Boursaut et de Givry, who was Chauvet's pupil for twelve years. A few small stains, not serious.
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