Miscellanea Philosophico-Mathematica Societatis Privatae Taurinensis.

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important mathematics and physics published by a leading italian intellectual society The 5 complete volumes of the Miscellanea Taurinensis, all first editions, containing some major texts by Lagrange, including his renowned theories on the calculus of variations and mechanics, Euler, Cigna, Giovanni Battista Gaber, Michele Antonio Piazza, Haller, M. le Comte Saluce, Condorcet and others. The collation, including plate count, corresponds to the digitised copy in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. 'The Turin Mathematical Society was founded in 1757 by a group of young scientists who were living in Turin, including Lagrange, Guiseppe Angelo Saluzzodi Menusiglio (Count Saluzzo) and the medical physician Giovanni Cigna. As with many such societies, one of the main reasons to found the society was to provide support and infrastructure for publishing a journal. In this case they produced Miscellanea Taurinensio ou Mélanges de Turin which contained papers written in both French and Latin. The first volume appeared at the beginning of the summer of 1759 and contained a paper by Lagrange on maxima and minima. The second volume was published in the summer of 1762 and again included important contributions from Lagrange such as a work on the calculus of variations and another paper on the propagation of sound. The third volume of the Mélanges de Turin, containing a paper by Lagrange on the integral calculus, appeared in 1766. By the time the fourth volume was published in the summer of

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