French Science Journal 1687 Mechanics Pulleys

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French Science Journal. Nouvelle Republique des Lettres. Published Amsterdam 1687. May-august. Page 459-912, with a title page for each month. Vellum binding, slight damaged, tiny worm damage in the margin of the first few pages. Complete. In this French science journal, 1687, with numerous articles, we find an article on the working of pulleys. P 487-498 by Varignon, possibly his first publication in print on the subject. Pierre Varignon (Caen 1654 – December 23, 1722 Paris) was a French mathematician. He was educated at the Jesuit College and the University in Caen, where he received his M.A. in 1682. He took Holy Orders the following year. Varignon gained his first exposure to mathematics by reading Euclid and then Descartes' La Géométrie. He became professor of mathematics at the Collège Mazarin in Paris in 1688 and was elected to the Académie Royale des Sciences in the same year. In 1704 he held the departmental chair at Collège Mazarin and also became professor of mathematics at the Collège Royal. He was elected to the Berlin Academy in 1713 and to the Royal Society in 1718. Many of his works were published in Paris in 1725, three years after his death. His lectures at Mazarin were published in Eléments de mathématiques in 1731. Varignon was a friend of Newton, Leibniz, and the Bernoulli family. Varignon's principal contributions were to graphic statics and mechanics EU customers + 6% VAT, surface shipping by sea included, by Air 20$ outside Europe, 12 $ in Europe. PAYPAL OK, but you have to ask me first