D'Alembert (Jean Le Rond): Reflexions sur la Cause Generale des Vents, Paris, chez David l'ainé, 1747, 4to, second edition, French and Latin text, 2 engraved vignettes after Eisen and 2 folding engraved plates (title browned at margins, section torn from lower margin of b1, contemporary calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments with raised bands. [Sotheran I, 71; cf. Honeyman 806]

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D'Alembert (Jean Le Rond): Reflexions sur la Cause Generale des Vents, Paris, chez David l'ainé, 1747, 4to, second edition, French and Latin text, 2 engraved vignettes after Eisen and 2 folding engraved plates (title browned at margins, section torn from lower margin of b1, contemporary calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments with raised bands. [Sotheran I, 71; cf. Honeyman 806]

拍品专文

Jean le Rond D'Alembert, the illegitimate child of the chevalier Destouches, was born in Paris in 1717 and died there in 1783, his Christian name being taken by the parish authorities from the church near Notre Dame where his mother abandoned him. Nearly all his mathematical works were produced during the years 1743 to 1754. During the latter part of his career, he was heavily occupied with the great French Encyclopédie. The above is an important work on atmospheric tides containing the first general use of partial differential equations in mathematical physics.