Recreations mathematiques
Subtitle: Composées. de plusieurs problemes, plaisans & facetieux, d'arithmetique, geometrie, astrologie, optique, perspectiue, mechanique, chymie, & d'autre rares & curieux secrets: plusieurs desquels n'ont iamais esté imprimez. Premiere et seconde partie. La troisiesme partie, contient vn recueil de plusieurs gentilles & recreatiues inuentions de feux d'artifice: la maniere de faire toutes sortes de fuzées, simples & composées: le tout representé par figures..
Contributors: Leurechon, Jean, 1591-1670, attributed name; Henrion, Denis, -approximately 1640; Mydorge, Claude, 1585-1647; Appier-Hanzelet, Jean, 1596-1647
Publisher: Chez Charles Osmont, ruë aux Iuifs, prés le Palais
Published: 1628
Place of publication: A Rouen
Language: fre
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Scientific recreations; Early works to 1800; Mathematical recreations; Fireworks; Card tricks; Magic tricks
Work titles: Récréation mathématique
Notes: On the longstanding misattribution of the first part of this work to Jean Leurechon, and its actual compilation by Hendrik van Etten, see Trevor H. Hall, Mathematicall recreations (1969); van Etten's signed dedication is omitted from this edition. The second part, containing 45 "problems" in addition to the original 91, is attributed by Hall to Denis Henrion and Claude Mydorge jointly, but is quite probably by the former only (identified as D.H.P.E.M. in the 1627 "4e. éd." in which these "plusieurs beaux problemes", assuming them to be the same ones, were first printed). The third part, on fireworks, first added to this edition, is attributed by Hall to Jean Appier Hanzelet.

"Acheué d'imprimer le 12. iour de Feurier 1628. de l'imprimerie de Ozée Seignuré."--p. ²K1v.

Pt. 2 has special title page (with imprint as on general t.p.): La seconde partie des Recreations mathematiques. Composées de plusieurs problemes plaisans & facetieux, en faict d'arithmetique, geometrie, astrologie, optique, perspectiue, mechanique, & chymie: & autres rares secrets non encor veus, ny mis en lumiere. Enrichie d'obseruations, scolies, & corollaires, seruans à l'explication des choses les plus difficiles de cét oeuuvre.

Pt. 3 has special title page (with imprint as on general t.p.): Troisie'me partie des recreations mathematiques. Composées d'vn recueil de plusieurs plaisantes & recreatiues inuentions de feux d'artifice. Plus la maniere de faire toutes sortes de fuzées, tant simples que doubles, auec leur composition: le tout representé par figures.

Signatures: ã² A-M⁸, ²A-I⁸ K² [$4 (+ã2, -O3, ²B2) signed; ²A1,2 signed ã1,2; &B3 missigned B2].

Errors in pagination: p. 200-201, 204-205, 208 (all in outer M) misnumbered 100-101, 104-105, 108.