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EULER, Leonhard (1707-1783). Mechanica sive motus scientia analytice exposita . Saint Petersburg: at the Press of the Academy of Sciences, 1736.
EULER, Leonhard (1707-1783). Mechanica sive motus scientia analytice exposita . Saint Petersburg: at the Press of the Academy of Sciences, 1736. 2 volumes, 4° (289 x 215mm). 32 folding engraved plates. (Occasional scattered spotting.) 20th-century red half roan, black morocco labels gilt (extremities worn, spine panels flaking, one label chipped). Provenance : John Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Earl of Shelburne (1706-1761; bookplate underneath front endpaper). FIRST EDITION of ‘Euler’s famous work in mechanics in which he introduced the use of analytical methods instead of the geometrical methods of Newton and his followers’ (Roberts and Trent). ‘Euler was the first to appreciate the importance of introducing uniform analytic methods into mechanics, thus enabling its problems to be solved in a clear and direct way’ ( DSB ). A tall copy with deckle edges. Roberts and Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica , pp.103-4.