HISTORY OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE.... - Lot 148 - Giquello

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HISTORY OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE.... - Lot 148 - Giquello
HISTORY OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. Years 1779-1781-1785. Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1782-1784-1788. 3 strong volumes in-4, waiting cardboard, marbled paper, untrimmed (Binding of the time). Original editions. Among the most important writings contained in these three volumes are the following: Mémoire sur les suites de Laplace (year 1779, pp. 207-309), two memoirs by Lavoisier on the synthesis of water (year 1781, pp. 269-283 and pp. 468-494), a memoir by Monge on the Theory of cuttings & embankments (year 1781, pp. 666-704), a dissertation by Condorcet on the applications of probability calculus to the human sciences, Laplace's Theory of Jupiter and Saturn (year 1785, pp. 33-160), Legendre's Recherches d'analyse indéterminées (year 1785, pp. 465-559) and 3 dissertations by Charles Coulomb on electricity and magnetism (year 1785). Attached: NEW MEMORIES of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Belles-lettres. Year 1770. Berlin, Voss, 1772. In-4, calf of the time, spine redone in modern canvas. Contains among others 3 memoirs by Lagrange: Nouvelles réflexions sur les tautochrones, Démonstration d'un théorème d'arithmétique, and Réflexions sur la résolution alébrique des équations; and 2 others by Jean Bernoulli.
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