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1759-1773. 5 volumes. 4to (230 x 170 mm), uniformly bound in early 19th century half calf over sprinkled paper boards, spines ruled and lettered in gilt, light-blue endpapers, yellow-dyed edges (slightly rubbed, corners little bumped, vol I slightly smaller in size), in total 27 plates engraved and folding, engraved headpieces, half-title to each volume, title of vol. I with woodcut device, other volume titles with engraved devices. Text and plates generally very crisp and clean with only very minor occasional spotting and browning, in vol. III 3 plates a bit browned and foxed and a long clean tear w/o loss in pp. 357/8 and 359/60, plate IV in vol. V shaved at bottom costing the frame, pp. 108-9 of vol. V soiled. Provenance: Claude-Ignace de Barante (bookplate to front-pastedown of each volume). A fine, wide-margined set. ---- FIRST EDITION, and rarely found complete with all five volumes present as here, of a series of early major papers by Lagrange and others on the calculus of variations and mechanics. In 1757, the Count of Saluce, Louis de Lagrange and Jean-François Cigna, physics and mathematics enthusiasts, joined forces to carry out experiments. In 1759, under the auspices of King Victor Amédée, they published the first volume under the Latin title Miscellanea philosophico-mathematica Societatis privatae Taurinensis. Shortly after, Albrecht Haller and Leonard Euler joined the Society, then three further partners, and little by little an academy and the publications of that academy were created. The second and all further volumes were published under the French title Mélanges de philosophie et de mathématique de la Société Royale de Turin and contain papers in French and Latin. - Visit our website to see more images! >br>Vol. I: 1759. [8], 51 [1], 146, x, 146, [6] pp., 4 plates. Contains: J. F. CIGNA, on barometers and thermometers, a memoir by Count de SALUCE, Sur la nature du fluide élastique qui se développe de la poudre à canon, two treatises by LAGRANGE, Sur l'intégration d'une équation différentielle à différences finies et des Recherches sur la nature et la propagation du son, as well as papers by J. B. GABER, M. A. PLAZZA, A. BERTRAND and DAVIET de FONCENEX. >br>Vol. II: 1760-1761. [4], 224, 344, 108 pp., 6 plates and 1 map. Contains: A. HALLER, Emendationes et auctaria ad stirpium helveticarum historiam (on Swiss flora); CIGNA, De motibus electricis experimentum; an article on Corsican Flora by F. VALLA; a letter from EULER TO LAGRANGE; Un essai d'une nouvelle méthode pour déterminer les maxima et les minima des formules intégrales indéfinies by LAGRANGE, and several other papers by DAVIET de FONCENEX, P. GERDIL, L. RICHER and CARENA. >br>Vol. III: 1762-1765. [6], 220, 396, [4] pp., 7 plates. Contains: MACQUER, Mémoire sur la différente dissolubilité des sels neutres dans l'esprit de vin; SALUTS, De l'action de la chaux vive sur différentes substances. Expériences pour chercher les causes des changements qui arrivent au sirop violat par le mélange de différentes substances; DANA (J. P.) De hirudinis nova speciae, noxa . . . De quibusdam urticae marinae; EULER, Sur le mouvement des cordes vibrantes - Recherches sur le mouvement des cordes inégalement grosses - Recherches sur la construction de nouvelles lunettes, and two further mathematical treatises; LAGRANGE, Solution de différents problèmes de calcul intégral; Excerpts of letters from D'Alembert to Lagrange. >br>Vol. IV: 1766-1769. [8], 205 [1], 345 (i.e., 349) [3] pp., 4 plates, without the intermediate blank leaf. Contains: 3 articles by CONDORCET sur les équations différentielles; 3 dissertations by LAGRANGE: équations différentielles, mouvement d'un corps attiré vers deux centres fixes - Sur la méthode des variations; LAPLACE, Recherches sur le calcul intégral aux différences infiniment petites. . . - Visit our website for more images and information!. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003417
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