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Besson, Jacques (Mathematician)

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    Art et moyen parfaict de tirer huyles et eaux, de tous medicaments simples et oleogineux. Premièrement receu d'un certain empirique qu'on estimoit Alleman, et depuis confirmé par raisons et experiences. Nouvellement corrigé et augmenté d'un second livre ... / [Jacques Besson].

    Besson, Jacques (Mathematician) | Date: 1573
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    Teatro de los instrvmentos y figvras matematicas y mecanicas. Libro muy vtil y necessario para todos estados de personas / Compuesto par Diego Besson, con las interpretaciones de cada figura, echas por Francisco Beroaldo.

    Besson, Jacques (Mathematician) | Date: 1602
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    L'art et science de trouver les eaux et fontaines cachees soubs terre, autrement que par les moyens vulgaires des agriculteurs et architectes / [Jacques Besson].

    Besson, Jacques (Mathematician) | Date: 1569
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    Portraits of 17th-century painters etc. who worked in England ; use of machines designed by Jacques Besson. Engravings and etchings, ca. 1569-1809.

    | Reference: 29181i
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    Iacobi Bessoni De absoluta ratione extrahendi olea, & aquas è medicamentis simplicibus: : accepta olim à quodam empirico, postea uero ab eodem Bessono locupletata, & rationibus experime[n]tis[que] confirmata, liber.

    Besson, Jacques (Mathematician) | Date: Anno Do. 1559
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