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The use of the geometrical playing-cards, as also a discourse of the mechanick powers
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- Creator
- by Monsi. Des-Cartes ; translated from his own manuscript copy ; shewing what great things may be performed by mechanick engines in removing and raising bodies of vast weights with little strength or force
- Format
- Books; Microforms
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London : Printed and sold by J. Moxon ..., 1697
- Physical Details
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- 2 unnumbered pages, 85 pages and 52 cards : illustrations
- OCLC
- ocm12012151
- Translation of: Traité de la mécanique.
- After p. 85 there are fifty-two playing cards, illustrated with geometric designs.
- Reproduction of original in Yale University Library.
- Imperfect: t.p. and p. 85 badly mutilated and mounted.
- Wing D1137
- Available electronically as part of Early English books online.