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POINCARÉ, HENRI. Les Méthodes Nouvelles de la Mécanique Céleste. [4], 385, [1]; viii, 479, [1]; [4], 414 pages, including half-titles. 3 volumes. 8vo, 234x154 mm, early 20th-century 1/4 morocco gilt, spines worn; contents clean. Stamp of the Institut Technique de Normandie, Caen, on titles. Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1892
first edition. 'Poincaré remains . . . the mathematician after Newton who did the most remarkable work in celestial mechanics . . . Poincaré inaugurated the rigorous treatment of celestial mechanics, in opposition to the semi-empirical computations that had been prevalent before him . . . Most of his results were developed in his famous three-volume Les Méthodes Nouvelles . . . and later in his Leçons'—DSB XI, 52-57. BEA, pages 921-22.
