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ALEMBERT, JEAN LE ROND D'. Traité de l'Équilibre et du Mouvement des Fluides. 10 folding engraved plates. xxxii, [8], 458, [2] pages, including cancel [F]4 and errata leaf at end. 4to, modern sprinkled calf, spine attractively gilt with morocco lettering piece; insignificant worming in blank lower margins, small piece excised from blank outer margin of title and restored, owner's stamp on front and rear free endpapers. Paris: (Jean-Baptiste Coignard for) David l'aîné, 1744
first edition of a treatise on fluid mechanics. Second state of pages 47-48, with two paragraphs rewritten to acknowledge the theories of Huygens, Newton, Bouguer, and Maupertuis; in the first state the text refers exclusively to principles of equilibrium applied in Clairaut's work on the shape of the earth. Bibliotheca Mechanica, page 7; Norman 33; Rouse & Ince, pages 100-101.
