Recherches sur la Précession des Equinoxes, et sur la Nutation de l’Axe de la Terre, dans le Systême Newtonien

by Jean Le Rond d’ Alembert

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First edition

Four folding engraved plates. xxxviii, 2 , 184 pp. 4to, cont. mottled calf, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: David l’aîné, 1749. First edition of one of Alembert’s most important books. “During the late 1740’s, d’Alembert, Clairaut, and Euler were all working on the famous three-body problem, with varying success. D’Alembert’s interest in celestial mechanics thus led him, in 1749, to publish a masterly work,

• Binding: Leather

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