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Lausanne & Geneve, Marc-Michel Bousquet & Compagnie, 1742-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. [First Collected edition - History of Differential and Integral Calculus] 4 volume set. Quartos, 25 x 20 cm. Bound in contemporary 1/4 calf over paste-boards. Restored binding. 91 engraved folding plates. Lacking half-titles and 2 portraits (commonly absent). [4], xxiv, 563, [1]; [2], 620; [2], 563, [1]; [3]-588 pages. Titles in red and black, with engraved vignettes. Scattered foxing, staining. Generally clean internally. <br> "Bernoulli published only one book, Theorie de la manoeuvre des vaisseaux (1714) and apart from this, his dissertation De motu musculorum (1694) and one or two minor pieces, all his work was contributed to journals (189 papers are collected here) or were first published in these volumes, i.e. 59 of his lectures and the Hydraulica in volume IV [appearing here for the first time in print], which was written in competition with his son Daniel." - Roger… Read More

Lausanne & Geneva:: M. M. Bousquet, 1742., 1742. 4 volumes. Large 4to. Engraved frontis., engraved title vignettes, 91 engraved folding plates, titles printed in red and black. Fine contemporary mottled vellum over boards, spines gilt; minor binding defects, very slight worming to final leaves of index of vol. 4. Small Jesuit library stamp on titles. Near fine. First edition, a lovely set. Bernoulli rose to fame, along with his brother Jakob, for his investigations into the then-new fields of differential and integral calculus. Most of Bernoulli's writing appeared only in the journals of the time, and remained uncollected until the present edition. / "His chief discoveries are the exponential calculus, the treatment of trigonometry as a branch of analysis, the conditions for a geodesic, the determination of orthogonal trajectories, the solution of the brachistochrone, the statement that a ray of light traversed such a path that Smds [in Greek] is a minimum, and the enunciation of the principle of… Read More