Traité de Mécanique céleste par P.S. Laplace. Tomes I-III

Features

Author:  Pierre-Simon de Laplace

Publisher:  De l'Imprimerie de Crapelet

Place of printing:  Paris

Year of publication:  An VII (1798)-An XI (1802)

Product Condition:
Only the first three volumes of the four published. Half leather binding with corners, cardboard and sprayed plates, titles on gussets and gilt decorations on the spines; traces of dust, sporadic stains and peeling on the paper covering of the plates; peelings on the edges of the plates; cap of the second volume dented; small worm holes and minimal defects on the front hinges, especially on volume III. Cuts in red color with traces of dust. Ancient calligraphic ex libris on the pastedown of the three volumes. Irregularly browned papers with scattered blooms, mainly located along the margins. We point out: in Volume I: brown stain near the external margin of the flyleaf and the title page, of the internal margin of the cc from R2 to T1; to Volume II: minimal lack in the lower external corner of T4; back endpaper torn; to Volume III: notebook B very browned; brown spots on notebooks C, O and Ll, and from Bb1 to Ee4; rips without gaps on Pp4

Pages:  XXXII,368;(4),382;XXIV,303,(1)

Format:  Fourth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  25
Width:  20

Description

This first edition, published between 1799 and 1805, was composed of 4 volumes: our example stops at volume III. Continuing on the trail of Newton's Principia, Laplace tackles a whole series of astronomical problems left open by the English scientist (theory of perturbations, secular and periodic, theory of the secular acceleration of the Moon, secular invariability of the average distances of the planets from the Sun, theory of attraction of spheroids, mutual perturbations of Jupiter and Saturn, dynamic theory of tides, etc.) arriving at the definition of a universe as a self-regulating system with its own intrinsic stability. In his work Laplace also uses his mathematical skills, applying his discoveries in the field of algebraic and infinitesimal analysis. The work brings to Volume III a dedication to Napoleon, First Consul at the time. The elegant typographical appearance of the text is striking in pages full of complex mathematical formulas.

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