recherches differens points importans systême de alembert jean rond (4 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Sehr gut. 3 volumes. Bruxelles, Culture et Civilisation 1966. gr.8°. 6 plates. LXVIII,260; VI,290; XLVIII,163 p. Imitation Leather with gilt back-title. (top-edges stained).- Private stamp on flyleaf, otherwise in very good condition.

Paris, Boudet pour David, 1754. 3 volumes petit in-4 de I. de LXVIII [cahiers d et c relié entre les cachiers a et b mais sans manque], 260 pages et 1 planche ; de II. VI, 290 pages et 3 planches ; et de III. XLVIII, 263, (1) pages et 2 planches ; veau marbré de l'époque aux armes de "The Society of Writers to the Signet", dos à cinq nerfs orné avec pièces de titre et de tomaison, tranches cirées (mors fendus mais toujours solides). Première édition, peu courante. Intéressant exemplaire aux armes de la prestigieuse société d'avocats écossais "Society of Writers to the Signet" dont la librairie était fameuse. En outre, l'exemplaire porte une variation au titre avec un carton du libraire Jombert sur la mention éditoriale d'origine "chez David l'ainé". Un des travaux les plus importants du XVIIIe siècle avant Laplace pour la théorie des mouvements de la lune, des orbites planétaires, de la précession et de la figure de la terre au sein de la théorie astronomique de la gravitation universelle. "Devoted primarily to the motion of the moon (Volume II included a new set of lunar tables), it was written at least partially to guard d'Alembert's claims to originality against those of Clairaut. As was so often the case, d'Alembert's method was mathematically more sound, but Clairaut's method was more easily used by astronomers." (DSB).

Six folding engraved plates. lxviii, 260 pp.; vi, 290 pp.; xlviii, 263 pp. Three vols. 4to, cont. mottled calf (lower cover of Vol. II a little wormed), spines gilt, red morocco lettering pieces on spines. Paris: David, 1754-54-56. First edition. "Devoted primarily to the motion of the moon (Volume II included a new set of lunar tables), it was written at least partially to guard d'Alembert's claims to originality against those of Clairaut. As was so often the case, d'Alembert's method was mathematically more sound, but Clairaut's method was more easily used by astronomers."D.S.B., I, p. 114. Clairaut's anonymous and unfavorable review of the third volume, published in the Journal des Sçavans, caused a bitter, famous, and extended controversy which continued until Clairaut's death in 1765. Fine set. From the library of Marchese Giulio Stanga Carlo Trecco (d. 1832), amateur mathematician and physicist who formed a large collection of scientific instruments, with his shelfmark label at head of spine. ? Lalande, p. 453"On trouve dans le premier volume des recherches savantes sur le probléme des trois corps.".

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