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ALEMBERT, Jean le Rond d' (1717-1783). Trait de l'quilibre et du mouvement des fluides. Pour servir de suite au Trait de Dynamique. Paris: David, l'an, 1744.
4o (217 x 168 mm). Printer's engraved vignette on title-page. (Lacking the 10 engraved plates, a little worming to some inner margins at beginning, some pale spotting and light browning.) 17th-century sheep-backed decorated boards, spine gilt (some minor worming to spine). Provenance: library(?) number stamped on title.
FIRST EDITION of this companion volume to d'Alembert's Trait de dynamique, in which he employs his principle to deal with the problems of fluid mechanics. Sotheran I, 74; Norman 33.
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ALEMBERT, Jean le Rond d' (1717-1783). Reflexions sur la cause generale des vents -Meditationes de generali ventorum causa. Paris: David l'an, 1747.
4o (216 x 157 mm). Printer's engraved vignette on title-page. Text in French and Latin. (Some minor light browning.) 17th-century vellum (front free endpaper loose). Provenance: Castiglione (early signature on title-page); library(?) number stamped on front free endpaper.
FIRST EDITION of an important work on atmospheric tides which contains the first general use of partial differential equations in mathematical physics. Sotheran I, 71; Norman 34. (2)
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FIRST EDITION of this companion volume to d'Alembert's Trait de dynamique, in which he employs his principle to deal with the problems of fluid mechanics. Sotheran I, 74; Norman 33.
[With:]
ALEMBERT, Jean le Rond d' (1717-1783). Reflexions sur la cause generale des vents -Meditationes de generali ventorum causa. Paris: David l'an, 1747.
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FIRST EDITION of an important work on atmospheric tides which contains the first general use of partial differential equations in mathematical physics. Sotheran I, 71; Norman 34. (2)