Mechanica sive motus scientia analytice exposita

by Leonhard Euler

$7,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

St. Petersburg: Academy of Sciences, 1736. First edition of “Euler’s famous work on mechanics in which he introduced the use of analytical methods instead of the geometrical methods of Newton and his followers” Timoshenko, p. 29 . Mechanica won the praise of many leading scientists of the time: Johann Bernoulli said of the work that “it does honour to Euler’s genius and acumen,” while Lagrange in

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