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Mechanism of the heavens

Mary Somerville (Author), William Clowes (Printer), Pierre Simon Laplace, John Murray (Firm) (Publisher)
Print Book, English, 1831
John Murray, Albemarle-street, London, 1831
Half bindings (Binding)
lxx, 621, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
2698648
"To Henry, Lord Brougham and Vaux, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain"--Page iii
Errata on pages [1-2] (third group)
"In the following pages it is not intended to limit the account of the Mécanique Céleste to a detail of results ... the object of ths work is rather to give the spirit of La Place's method"--Page 3