Item #94514 Mathematicall Magick, or, the Wonders that may be performed by Mechanicall Geometry. In Two Books. Concerning Mechanicall Powers [and] Motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, usefull, (and yet most neglected) Part of Mathematicks. Not before treated of in this Language. By I.W. M.A. Mathematics, John WILKINS.
Mathematicall Magick, or, the Wonders that may be performed by Mechanicall Geometry. In Two Books. Concerning Mechanicall Powers [and] Motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, usefull, (and yet most neglected) Part of Mathematicks. Not before treated of in this Language. By I.W. M.A.
Mathematicall Magick, or, the Wonders that may be performed by Mechanicall Geometry. In Two Books. Concerning Mechanicall Powers [and] Motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, usefull, (and yet most neglected) Part of Mathematicks. Not before treated of in this Language. By I.W. M.A.
Mathematicall Magick, or, the Wonders that may be performed by Mechanicall Geometry. In Two Books. Concerning Mechanicall Powers [and] Motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, usefull, (and yet most neglected) Part of Mathematicks. Not before treated of in this Language. By I.W. M.A.
Mathematicall Magick, or, the Wonders that may be performed by Mechanicall Geometry. In Two Books. Concerning Mechanicall Powers [and] Motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, usefull, (and yet most neglected) Part of Mathematicks. Not before treated of in this Language. By I.W. M.A.
Mathematicall Magick, or, the Wonders that may be performed by Mechanicall Geometry. In Two Books. Concerning Mechanicall Powers [and] Motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, usefull, (and yet most neglected) Part of Mathematicks. Not before treated of in this Language. By I.W. M.A.
Mathematicall Magick, or, the Wonders that may be performed by Mechanicall Geometry. In Two Books. Concerning Mechanicall Powers [and] Motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, usefull, (and yet most neglected) Part of Mathematicks. Not before treated of in this Language. By I.W. M.A.
Mathematicall Magick, or, the Wonders that may be performed by Mechanicall Geometry. In Two Books. Concerning Mechanicall Powers [and] Motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, usefull, (and yet most neglected) Part of Mathematicks. Not before treated of in this Language. By I.W. M.A.
Mathematicall Magick, or, the Wonders that may be performed by Mechanicall Geometry. In Two Books. Concerning Mechanicall Powers [and] Motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, usefull, (and yet most neglected) Part of Mathematicks. Not before treated of in this Language. By I.W. M.A.
Mathematicall Magick, or, the Wonders that may be performed by Mechanicall Geometry. In Two Books. Concerning Mechanicall Powers [and] Motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, usefull, (and yet most neglected) Part of Mathematicks. Not before treated of in this Language. By I.W. M.A.
Mathematicall Magick, or, the Wonders that may be performed by Mechanicall Geometry. In Two Books. Concerning Mechanicall Powers [and] Motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, usefull, (and yet most neglected) Part of Mathematicks. Not before treated of in this Language. By I.W. M.A.

Mathematicall Magick, or, the Wonders that may be performed by Mechanicall Geometry. In Two Books. Concerning Mechanicall Powers [and] Motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, usefull, (and yet most neglected) Part of Mathematicks. Not before treated of in this Language. By I.W. M.A.

London, Printed by M.F. for Sa. Gellibrand, 1648 [first edition].

Duodecimo, 295 pages with dozens of illustrations and diagrams (8 copper-engraved, the others woodcut), retaining the initial blank leaf, but lacking V4 (the final leaf, here supplied in unsympathetic facsimile). No frontispiece is called for.

Early sheep neatly rebacked in calf, retaining much of the original gilt-tooled backstrip; title leaf laid down on plain paper; short sealed tears to five leaves (A8, D3, H3, Q7 and S2); tidemarks to the last 50 leaves, with trifling signs of use throughout; text block trimmed close to the printed borders, with headlines and borders occasionally shaved or cropped; a very decent copy.

The first edition of the first book on mechanics in English. John Wilkins (1614-72), 14th Bishop of Chester, was one of the founders of the Royal Society, and its first secretary. Among the many topics addressed in this treatise are flying machines, hydraulics, perpetual motion machines, clockwork, submarines, siege engines and wind-powered chariots.

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