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LAGRANGE, JOSEPH-LOUIS. Mécanique Analytique. [6], xiv, 428, [4]; iv, 390, [1] pages, including half-titles, initial ad leaf in first volume, and errata leaf at end of second. 2 volumes in one. 4to, 273x219 mm, 19th-century 1/4 calf gilt, spine faded; scattered light foxing, split between pages iv and v in first volume. Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1853-55
Third edition of Lagrange's 1788 masterpiece, "which laid the foundations of modern mechanics, and which occupies a place in the history of the subject second only to that of Newton's Principia" (Wolf). "With the appearance of the Mécanique analytique . . . Lagrange proposed to reduce the theory of mechanics and the art of solving problems in that field to general formulas, the mere development of which would yield all the equations necessary for the solution of every problem" (DSB). Bibliotheca Mechanica, page 189; DSB VII, 569; Grolier/Horblit 61; Norman 1257; Riccardi II, 3; Wallis 106.162 (this edition); Wolf II, 69.
