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MACH, ERNST. Die Mechanik in ihrer Entwicklung historisch-kritisch dargestellt. 250 text illustrations. x, 483, [1] pages, including half-title * Die Principien der Wärmelehre historisch-kritisch entwickelt. 6 portrait plates; 105 text illustrations. viii, 472 pages, including half-title. Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, 182x118 mm, contemporary cloth, and 218x150 mm, contemporary 1/2 cloth, worn, spine faded; contents of both volumes clean. Contemporary signature of R[ichard?] Dedekind and modern bookplates of Herbert McLean Evans and the Burndy Library in the first work; stamp of the Akademisches Gymnasium, Vienna (released), on title of the second. Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1883; Barth, 1896
first editions. The first book is Mach's most famous work, 'in which he presents his criticism of the epistemological and methodological basis of scientific inquiry . . . his analysis of the conceptual basis of Newtonian physics . . . influenced the development of Einstein's gravitational theory" (Bibliotheca Mechanica). The second is a historical study of the theory of heat. Bibliotheca Mechanica 208, 210; DSB VII, 599; Wallis 110.9.
