FATIO DE DUILLIER, Nicolas (1664-1753). Fruit-Walls Improved, By Inclining them to the Horizon: or, a way to build walls for fruit-trees . London: R. Everingham, 1699.
FATIO DE DUILLIER, Nicolas (1664-1753). Fruit-Walls Improved, By Inclining them to the Horizon: or, a way to build walls for fruit-trees . London: R. Everingham, 1699. First edition, a wide-margined copy, signed by Fatio de Duillier at the end of the dedication. Fatio de Duillier, a Swiss mathematician, became a close friend of Isaac Newton’s shortly after his arrival in England in 1687. On 2 May 1688, Fatio was admitted as a fellow of the Royal Society. 4to (234 x 192 mm). Engraved folding frontispiece, two engraved folding plates, engraved head-piece after Gribelin. (Some light browning or staining.) Contemporary calf gilt (hinges starting, some light chipping to spine ends with minor loss). Provenance : Henry Streatfeild (1706-1762) British landowner in Chiddingstone, Kent (signature on title-page); Streatfeild family (armorial bookplate). ESTC R5191; Pritzel 2820; Wing F-557. “Fatio explored the effects of the use of sloping surfaces to maximize the sun’s heat for plants growing upon them. He directed the building of such a sloping wall for fruit trees at Belvoir Castle, and, in 1697, composed the text of Fruit-Walls Improved (1699)…Fatio’s interest in the physical processes by which the sun’s heat could be transmitted was linked to his earlier explanations of zodiacal light, to his ongoing work on the cause of gravity, and to his later investigations, in the years around 1705, of the paths of comets and the nature and prophetic interpretation of the aurora borealis” ( ODNB ).
FATIO DE DUILLIER, Nicolas (1664-1753). Fruit-Walls Improved, By Inclining them to the Horizon: or, a way to build walls for fruit-trees . London: R. Everingham, 1699.
FATIO DE DUILLIER, Nicolas (1664-1753). Fruit-Walls Improved, By Inclining them to the Horizon: or, a way to build walls for fruit-trees . London: R. Everingham, 1699. First edition, a wide-margined copy, signed by Fatio de Duillier at the end of the dedication. Fatio de Duillier, a Swiss mathematician, became a close friend of Isaac Newton’s shortly after his arrival in England in 1687. On 2 May 1688, Fatio was admitted as a fellow of the Royal Society. 4to (234 x 192 mm). Engraved folding frontispiece, two engraved folding plates, engraved head-piece after Gribelin. (Some light browning or staining.) Contemporary calf gilt (hinges starting, some light chipping to spine ends with minor loss). Provenance : Henry Streatfeild (1706-1762) British landowner in Chiddingstone, Kent (signature on title-page); Streatfeild family (armorial bookplate). ESTC R5191; Pritzel 2820; Wing F-557. “Fatio explored the effects of the use of sloping surfaces to maximize the sun’s heat for plants growing upon them. He directed the building of such a sloping wall for fruit trees at Belvoir Castle, and, in 1697, composed the text of Fruit-Walls Improved (1699)…Fatio’s interest in the physical processes by which the sun’s heat could be transmitted was linked to his earlier explanations of zodiacal light, to his ongoing work on the cause of gravity, and to his later investigations, in the years around 1705, of the paths of comets and the nature and prophetic interpretation of the aurora borealis” ( ODNB ).
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