Theoria motus corporum solidorum seu rigidorum. Ex primis nostrae cognitionis principiis stabilita et ad omnes motus, qui in huiusmodi corpora cadere possunt, accommodata

by Leonhard Euler

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First edition

Rostock & Greifswald: A. F. Röse, 1765. First edition of this landmark work, a continuation of Euler’s Mechanica 1736 in which he moves on from the treatment of the motion of point-masses in the earlier work to that of rigid bodies, studying rotational problems some motivated by the problem of the precession of the equinoxes and introducing many now familiar concepts such as the ‘moment of

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