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Exposition des découvertes philosophiques de M. Le Chevalier NEWTON. Traduit de l'anglais par M. LAVIROTTE -- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE -- BON EXEMPLAIRE GRAND DE MARGES
P., Durand, 1749, un volume grand in 4 relié en pleine basane, dos orné de fers dorés, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque), (légères épidermures sur les plats), 57pp., 3pp. non chiffrées, 422pp., (1pp.), 6 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES
---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE GRAND DE MARGES ---- "Maclaurin was educated at the University of Glasgow and at 19 was made professor of mathematics at Aberdeen. Two years later, he was admitted F.R.S. and made the acquaintance of Newton. In 1722, he went to France and won the prize of the French Academy of Sciences. On the recommandation of Newton, he was elected professor of mathematics in the University of Edinburgh in 1725 and helped form the Royal Society of Edinburgh... The prefixed account of the life and writings of the author is still the chief authority on him. The four books of this work treat : Of the method of proceeding in natural philosophy ; and the various systems of philosophers ; Of the theory of motion, or rational mechanics ; Gravity demonstrated by analysis ; The effects of the general power of gravity deduced synthetically. The last chapter treats of the supreme author and governor of the universe, the True and living god and ends with an argument in favor of a future life, which was dictated by the author but a few hours before his death". (Babson N° 85) ---- - DSB VIII pp. 609/612 - Cajori pp. 228/229 ---- Mémoires sur la vie et les écrits de M. MacLaurin - De la méthode qu'on doit suivre dans l'étude de la philosophie naturelle et des différens systèmes des philosophes - De la théorie du mouvement et des méchaniques rationelles - La gravité démontrée par l'analyse - Les effets de la gravités déduits synthétiquement**80730/8073/ARB4
Demonstration de Loix du Choc des Corps. (Piece qui a remporté le Prix de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, Proposé pour l'année mil sept cens vingt-quatre, selon Fonadation faite...).
Paris, Caude Jombert, 1724. 4to. Nice recent marbled boards in old style with titlelabel on frontcover. 24 pp. and one folded engraved plate. A few weak brownspots to margins. Otherwise fine and clean.
First edition of this extremely scarce work by the famous mathematician, solving an important problem in dynamics and extending Newton's work.""Despite the invention by Leibniz and Newton of the Calculus, the problem of mechanics of impact or percussion remained of centarl interest. The Royal Academy of Sciencesin Paris biannually qwarded a prize for the most outstanding paper"" in 1724 and 1726 the prizes were for papers on percussion. Colin Maclaurin, professor of mathematics at the University of Aberdeen, was awarded the prize in 1724 (forthe paper offered) over John Bernoulli...He expressed thet the interaction of forces on ciolliding bodies are equal in magnitude but opposed in direction (newton's third law) and used the physical construct of an elastic spring between the contact points in order to obtain changes in velocity during compression and restitution phases of collisions...""(W.J. Stronge in ""Impact Mechanics"").The Scottish mathematician Colin MacLaurin (1698-1746) is best known for developing and extending Newton's work in calculus, geometry and gravitation"" his 2-volume work ""Treatise of Fluxions"" (1742) was the first systematic exposition of Newton's methods. It is well known that MacLaurin was awarded prizes by the Royal Academy of Sciences, Paris, for his earlier work on the collision of bodies (the work offered here) and the tides (1740).
