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VARIGNON, PIERRE. Nouvelle Mécanique ou Statique. 63 (of 65) engraved plates, with plates 30-32 bound in Volume 1; lacks the portrait of the author and plate 29. [28], 387, [1]; [4], 478, [2] pages. 2 volumes. 4to, 247x191 mm, modern 1/4 leather, spines faded, hinges reinforced; contents toned, dampstaining in gutters at beginning and end of 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.
