BERNOULLI, DANIEL. Hydrodynamica, sive de viribus et motibus fluidorum commentarri. Strassburg: Johann Heinrich Decker for Johann Reinhold Dulssecker, 1738. Title printed in red and black, engraved title vignette and 12 engraved folding plates. 4to, contemporary limp boards, rebacked; light worming to blank margins of last 3 plates; modern quarter calf folding case. FIRST EDITION of Bernoulli's most famous work. His Hydrodynamica, a term he himself introduced, contains his formulae for calculating the velocity, duration and quantity of liquid issuing from an opening in a container. Sotheran I, 350; Norman 215.