l’amélioration et le ceintrage des bois. Without name of place or printer, n.d. [
Bordeaux,
1788?]
4to. 11 leaves, printed on blue paper, with the original front paper wrapper, folded engraved plate at the end of the Pont
de Brienne 1787 Gravé à Bordeaux par de Villeneuve, 1788; no title page, the caption title, caption title for the Seconde Feuille, No. 2, and paragraph headings in civilité
type, various dates within the year 1787 occur in the text.
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1. SANVITALE,
Federigo.
Elementi di Architettura Civile del Padre Federico Sanvitali della Compagnia di Gesu. Opera Postuma. In
Brescia: dalle Stampe di
Giammaria Rizzardi,
mdcclxv
. Con Licenza de’ Superiori. [1765.]
NA2515 .S2
4to. 58 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece by Cagnoni, woodcut coat of arms on the last leaf, otherwise blank, engraved head-piece, IV numbered folded engraved plates at the end.
Not in Brunet, Graesse or Ebert.
Backer VII, 602, 18.
Kimball, page 99.
Federico Sanvitale, 1704-1761, Italian architect and mathematician, began his career as a teacher of eloquence, literature and philosophy, but
eventually devoted himself to mathematics and architecture. He was sent by his superiors to Brescia, where he remained for
the rest of his life.
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2. PRETI,
Francesco Maria.
Elementi di Architettura del Signor Francesco Maria Preti. In
Venezia,
mdcclxxx
. Appresso
Giovanni Gatti, Con Pubblica Permissione. [1780.]
First Edition. 4to. 35 leaves, the last for the errori and correzioni, 4 folded engraved plates, 2 signed by G. Testolin.
Francesco Maria Preti, 1701-1774, Italian architect and mathematician. This work was published posthumously by his pupil, Giordano Riccati.
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3. MASCHERONI,
Lorenzo.
Nuove Ricerche sull’ Equilibrio delle Volte dell’ Abate Lorenzo Mascheroni Professore di Filosofia nel Collegio Mariano Acc. Ecc., e corrispondente dell’ Accademia di Padova . . .
Bergamo: per
Francesco Locatelli,
1785.
First Edition. 4to. 78 leaves including the first blank, XIII numbered engraved plates of diagrams.
Not in Brunet or Graesse.
Ebert 13337.
Kimball, page 96.
In a letter dated from Paris on December 23, 1788, to Thomas Paine in London largely concerned with his bridge, Jefferson
mentioned this work: “
. . . you hesitate between the catenary, and portion of a circle. I have lately received from Italy a treatise on the equilibrium
of arches by the Abbé Mascheroni. it appears to be a very scientifical work. I have not yet had time to engage in it. but
I find that the conclusions of his demonstrations are that ‘every part of the Catenary is in perfect equilibrium. it is a
great point then, in a new experiment, to adopt the sole arch where the pressure will be equally borne by every point of it.
if any one point is pushed with accumulated pressure, it will introduce a danger foreign to the essential part of the plan
. . .
”
Lorenzo Mascheroni, 1750-1800, Italian mathematician and professor of philosophy.
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