Christian WOLF, Cours de mathématique, qui contient... Lot 186

Christian WOLF, Cours de mathématique, qui contient toutes les parties de cette science, mises à la portée des commencans Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1747 3 vol. in-8°: title, ivp, 1f, xii-387p, 16 folding plates; frontispiece, title, 357p, 1f, 20 folding plates; frontispiece, title, 326p, 32f table, 5f catalog, 1f blank, 33 folding plates (66 plates numbered bottom right 1-66). Bound in contemporary full shagreened calf with red title-piece, very good condition despite minor defects. Christian Wolf is a German philosopher, a follower of Leibnitz and the main object of Kantian criticism. In the German tradition, he approaches architecture as a branch of mathematics, along with optics, perspective and gnomonics, which are also treated in this work. Architecture occupies the greater part of Volume 3, alongside the art of fortifications and pyrotechnics.