The use of the geometrical playing-cards, as also a discourse of the mechanick powers by Monsi. Des-Cartes ; translated from his own manuscript copy ; shewing what great things may be performed by mechanick engines in removing and raising bodies of vast weights with little strength or force.

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Translation of: Traité de la mécanique. After p. 85 there are fifty-two playing cards, illustrated with geometric designs. Reproduction of original in Yale University Library. Imperfect: t.p. and p. 85 badly mutilated and mounted.