Author: Laplace, Pierre-Simon
Title: Mechanik Des Himmels. Aus Dem Franzözischen [Franzozischen] übersetz [Ubersetz] Und Mit Erläuternden [Erlauternden] Anmerkungen Versehen, Von J.C. Burckhardt
Description: Berlin, F. T. LaGarde, 1800. Hardcover. Except for some chipping of the backstrip, a very good, clean, copy in contemporary marbeled paper over boards. -02. 2 volumes. The Dictionary of Scientific Biography ranks Laplace "among the most influential scientists in all history," and this translation, the first into any language, of the first part of his most important work, the Traité de Méchanique Céleste (1799-), marks the beginning of the spread of that influence. Printing and the Mind of Man, 252. .

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