Mechanica Sive De Motu Tractatus Geometricus Pars Prima In Qua De Motu Generalia De Gravium

by John Wallis

$32,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

London: William Godbid for Moses Pitt, 1669- 1671. First edition, very rare when complete with the portrait and all three parts, of this classic treatise on mechanics by Newton’s most important English precursor. It treats both statics the balance, the lever, centres of gravity, elasticity, and hydrostatics and dynamics including the motion of bodies under gravity, and the first comprehensive treatment of

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