LAPLACE (Pierre-Simon de).

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LAPLACE (Pierre-Simon de).
Treatise on celestial mechanics. 2 volumes. - Exposition of the world system. Second edition reviewed and corrected by the author. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Crapelet, Duprat, An VII [1798-1799]. Together 3 volumes in-4, bound, uncut and partly uncut for the first two volumes, covers of pink paper with glue of the time. The bible of all astronomers for nearly a century (In French in the text, n°201). Original edition of the Treatise on Celestial Mechanics, one of the most important scientific works published since the Principality of Newton. The work is composed of 5 volumes whose publication spanned 27 years, from 1798 to 1825. The first two volumes, presented here alone, present reminders of rational mechanics, the law of universal gravitation, the figure of celestial bodies, the theory of tides, the movements of bodies around their centre of gravity, etc. Second edition of the Exposition of the System of the World, a treatise in which Laplace exposes his cosmogonic theory. Copies as published, bound under slipcovers, an attractive condition. Significant margin moulding of several notebooks to the volumes of the Treatise on Celestial Mechanics.
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