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qu’officier de guerre par les états de Hollande. Il fut ensuite nommé premier ingénieur ordinaire du
roi et intendant des fortifications en Champagne et Picardie.Aleaume était aussi un grand amateur
d’instruments et faisait fabriquer ses lentilles par le tailleur de verre parisien qui travailla également
pour Descartes, Jean Ferrier. On lui doit d’intéressants travaux d’optiques.
“
The most important architectural project of the engineer Jacques Aleaume was the planning of Henry
IV’s important but unrealized project for the
Place de France
. His treatise on perspective was his major
contribution to the field of architectural theory, as a practical and as a theoretical presentation of the
subject... The
Perspective
is representative of the scientific, pragmatic spirit of inquiry that developed during
the first half of the seventeenth century ; the most prestigious example is Descartes”
Discours de la méthode
,
published in 1635, eight years after Aleaume’s book was written. Aleaume’s work is advanced enough to
emphasize the role of perspective as a technical science associated with geometry
” (Millard).
“
Indeed the use of grids, particularly by Jacques Aleaume and Étienne Migon in their
La Perspective
speculative et pratique
of 1663 [
!
], as a coordinate system provided a secure means by which to depict the
shapes and sizes of things in two dimensions, relative to how they appear in the three-dimensional world
”
(Michael Fowler,
Architectures of Sound
, p. 71).
Bon exemplaire.
First edition of this highly important text book on perspective, teaching both theory and practice of
all what was known of the art and science of perspective. It contains one of the first methods to present
segments in perspective, which are assigned by values of inclination and length. Written in about 1628
the book was published posthumously by Étienne Migon.
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ALEAUME, Jacques.
La Perspective speculative et pratique. Ou sont demonstrez les fondemens de cet
art, & de tout ce qui en a esté enseigné jusqu’à présent. Ensemble la manière universelle de la pratiquer,
non seulement sans geometral, & sans tiers poinct... De l’invention du sieur Aleaume... Mis au jour par
Estienne Migon.
Paris, Melchior Tavernier & François Langlois, 1643.
In-4 (234 x 167 mm) de 4
ff.n.ch.
(dont le premier blanc), 155 pp., 2
ff.n.ch.(privilège) ; demi-chagrin brun
(ateliers Laurenchet).
1 200 / 1 500
€
Vagnetti, EIIIb36.
Édition originale. Même édition que l’exemplaire précédent.
Premier cahier lavé et encollé, quelques rousseurs.