Recherches sur la précession des equinoxes, et sur la nutation de l’axe de la terre, dans le système Newtonien

by Jean le Rond d’ Alembert

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First edition

Paris: David l’ainé Colophon: De l'imprimerie de Jean-Baptiste Coignard, imprimeur du roi , 1749. First edition of one of d’Alembert’s most important books, widely regarded as the foundation work of the dynamics of rigid bodies. “The precession of the equinoxes had been observed in antiquity by Hipparchus. Newton explained the cause, the astronomer Bradley detected the nutation in a series of

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