Traite De Dynamique Dans Lequel Les Loix De Lequilibre Du Mouvement Des Corps Sont Reduites Au Plus

by Jean Le Rond D Alembert

$6,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Paris: David l’ainé, 1743; 1747. First edition of one of the classics in the history of science, d’Alembert’s formalization of the new science of mechanics. “The ‘Treatise on Dynamics’ was d’Alembert’s first major book and it is a landmark in the history of mechanics. It reduces the laws of the motion of bodies to a law of equilibrium. Its statement that 'the internal forces of inertia

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