LAPLACE, PIERRE SIMON DE. Mcanique Cleste... Translated, with a Commentary, by Nathaniel Bowditch. Boston: Isaac R. Butts for Hilliard, Gray, Litte and Wilkins, 1829-39. 3 engraved portraits (Laplace, Bowditch and his wife), numerous mathematical diagrams. 4 volumes, 4to, late 19th-century half morocco, spines gilt-lettered, rubbing to spines and edges; minor foxing to some pages, upper hinge of vol. II tape repaired, library stamped on upper edge of vol. III. First Edition in English, with ample commentary by Bowditch. PMM 252 ("Laplace has been called the 'Newton of France.' In his monumental 'Treatise on Celestial Mechanics...' he codified and developed the theories and achievements of... Newton, Euler, d'Alembert and of his contemporary Lagrange..."); see Grolier/Horblit 63. (4)
LAPLACE, PIERRE SIMON DE. Mcanique Cleste... Translated, with a Commentary, by Nathaniel Bowditch. Boston: Isaac R. Butts for Hilliard, Gray, Litte and Wilkins, 1829-39. 3 engraved portraits (Laplace, Bowditch and his wife), numerous mathematical diagrams. 4 volumes, 4to, late 19th-century half morocco, spines gilt-lettered, rubbing to spines and edges; minor foxing to some pages, upper hinge of vol. II tape repaired, library stamped on upper edge of vol. III. First Edition in English, with ample commentary by Bowditch. PMM 252 ("Laplace has been called the 'Newton of France.' In his monumental 'Treatise on Celestial Mechanics...' he codified and developed the theories and achievements of... Newton, Euler, d'Alembert and of his contemporary Lagrange..."); see Grolier/Horblit 63. (4)
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