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EULER, LEONHARD. Mechanica; sive, Motus scientia analytice exposita. 31 (of 32) folding engraved plates; lacking plate 13 in Volume 2. [16], 480; [8], 500 pages. 2 volumes. 4to, 258x193 mm, contemporary calf gilt with unidentified arms on covers, Volume 1 spine chipped at top; moderate foxing. 19th-century Jesuit stamps (École Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, and Maison Saint-Louis, Jersey) on titles. St. Petersburg: Typographia Academia Scientiarum, 1736
first edition. 'Euler developed the theory of the motions of two bodies in his Mechanica, published in 1736, which he considered not only as an introduction to celestial mechanics, but as the foundation of all mechanics as well. The novelty of this book is the use of analysis rather than geometry to describe mathematically the free and constrained motions of point-like masses in empty space as well as in resisting media'—BEA, pages, 346-48. Bibliotheca Mechanica, pages 103-04. DSB IV, 480; Eneström 15.
