Recreations mathematiques
Subtitle: composé̈s de plusieurs problemes plaisans & facetieux, d'arithmetique, geometrie, astrologie, optique, perspectiue, mechanique, & d'autres 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
Publisher: Chez Claude Prost ...
Published: 1642
Place of publication: A Lyon
Language: fre
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Science; Mathematical recreations; Scientific recreations; Fireworks
Work titles: Récréation mathématique 1642
Notes: Part I was first published (Pont-à-Mousson, 1624) with title: Récréation mathématique.  The dedication was signed: H. van Etten, long thought to be a pseudonym of Jean Leurechon, but now believed to have been a real person.  Authorship of parts 2 & 3 is unknown.  Cf. Trevor H. Hall, Mathematicall recreations: an exercise in seventeenth-century bibliography (Leeds, 1969).

Parts 2 & 3 have each a special t.p., dated 1643, and are paged continuously.

Numbers 197-198 (1st group) omitted in paging.