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VARIGNON, PIERRE. Nouvelle Mécanique ou Statique. 65 (of 66) engraved plates; lacks the portrait of the author. [28], 387, [1]; [4], 478, [2] pages. 2 volumes. 4to, 248x194 mm, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked; varying browning and foxing through both volumes. Paris: Claude Jombert, 1725
first edition. "Posthumous publication of Varignon's major contribution to physics . . . A key work in the foundation of classical mechanics, the Nouvelle Mécanique contains the first statement of Bernoulli's principle of virtual velocities"--Bibliotheca Mechanica, page 338. DSB XIII, 585; Wolf II, page 64.
