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LAPLACE, Pierre Simon (1749-1827). Traité de mécanique céleste. Paris: Duprat [vols. I-III], Courcier [vol. IV], and Bachelier [vol. V], 1799-1827.
5 volumes, 4° (260 x 200mm). With the supplements in volumes III, IV and V. Folding engraved plate in vol. IV. (Without blanks, lacking half-titles in vols. III and IV, occasional light marginal soiling and short marginal tears, some margins faintly darkened in vol. III, small marginal repairs in half-title and last leaf of vol. V.) Modern cloth, red morocco spine labels. Provenance: purchased by the Royal Institution in 1801.
FIRST EDITION of this fundamental work on celestial mechanics, a term coined by Laplace himself, codifying and developing the theories of Newton, Halley, Euler, and others. Here Laplace showed that ‘the universe was really a great self-regulating machine and the whole solar system could continue on its existing plan for an immense period of time. This was a long step forward from the Newtonian uncertainties in this respect... Laplace also offered a brilliant explanation of the secular inequalities of the mean motion of the moon about the earth – a problem which Euler and Lagrange had failed to solve... He also investigated the theory of the tides and calculated from them the mass of the moon’ (PMM). Dibner 14; En Français dans le texte 201; Honeyman 1920; Horblit 63; Norman 1277; PMM 252; Sparrow 125.
5 volumes, 4° (260 x 200mm). With the supplements in volumes III, IV and V. Folding engraved plate in vol. IV. (Without blanks, lacking half-titles in vols. III and IV, occasional light marginal soiling and short marginal tears, some margins faintly darkened in vol. III, small marginal repairs in half-title and last leaf of vol. V.) Modern cloth, red morocco spine labels. Provenance: purchased by the Royal Institution in 1801.
FIRST EDITION of this fundamental work on celestial mechanics, a term coined by Laplace himself, codifying and developing the theories of Newton, Halley, Euler, and others. Here Laplace showed that ‘the universe was really a great self-regulating machine and the whole solar system could continue on its existing plan for an immense period of time. This was a long step forward from the Newtonian uncertainties in this respect... Laplace also offered a brilliant explanation of the secular inequalities of the mean motion of the moon about the earth – a problem which Euler and Lagrange had failed to solve... He also investigated the theory of the tides and calculated from them the mass of the moon’ (PMM). Dibner 14; En Français dans le texte 201; Honeyman 1920; Horblit 63; Norman 1277; PMM 252; Sparrow 125.
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