The use of the geometrical playing-cards, as also a discourse of the mechanick powers
By: 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
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 64:5
Publisher: Printed and sold by J. Moxon ...
Published: 1697
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 85
Subjects: Mechanics -- Early works to 1800; Geometry -- Early works to 1800
Work titles: Traité de la mécanique.
Notes: 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

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1962. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 64:5)

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