Construcçaõ, e analyse de proposições geometricas
Subtitle: e experiencias practicas, que servem de fundamento à architectura naval
By: Impresso por ordem de Sua Magestade e traduzida do Inglez por Antonio Pires da Silva Pontes ..
Contributors: Pontes, Antonio Pires da Silva, 1750-1815
Publisher: na offic. patriarcal de Joaõ Procopio Correa da Silva.
Published: 1798
Place of publication: Lisboa
Language: por
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Designs and plans; Naval architecture; Geometrical constructions
Work titles: Construction and analysis of geometrical propositions
Notes: Authorship from Moraes and Silva.

Translation, by Antonio Pires da Silva Pontes, of article originally published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. London, 1796, under title: The construction and analysis of geometrical propositions, determining the positions assumed by homogeneal bodies which float freely and at rest on a fluid surface.

Edited by Antonio Pires da Silva Pontes.

Title vignette: Royal coat of arms of Portugal.

Signatures: pi² B-Y² (pi1 verso, Y1 verso, Y2 blank)

Plates numbered: Est. 1. [-4.]; figures on plates numbered consecutively (figs. I-VI on pl. 1, VII-XV on pl. 2, XVI-XXIV on pl. 3, XXV-XXVIII on pl. 4)

Moraes, R. B. de.  Bib. Brasiliana (rev. and enl. ed.), p. 683.

Silva, I.F. da  Diccionario bib. portuguez, 1: p. 239 (no. 1306)

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy purchased from the Trust Fund of Lathrop Colgate Harper.