"WOLLASTON, WILLIAM HYDE. - AN EARLY STATEMENT OF ""CONSERVATION OF ENERGY""
Reference : 42853
(1806)
(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1806). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1806 - Part I. Pp. 13-22.
First printing of Wollaston's Bakerian lecture where he defends Gottfried Leibniz's principle of vis viva, an gives an early formulation of the conservation of energy.