(Paris, Moutard, 1785). 4to. Extracted from ""Mémoires fe Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans"", Tome X. Pp. 1-64 (having its own titlepage). 1 folded engraved plate. Wide-margined, clean and fine.
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First printing of the prize winning memoir on the perturbations of a comet.""Fuss was an honorary member of the Berlin, Swedish, and Danish academies. In 1778 the Paris Academy of Sciences awarded him a prize for his astronomical paper ""Recherche sur le dérangement d’une cométe qui passe prés d’une planète"" ....Fuss was born into a Swiss family of modest means. His mathematical abilities, which manifested themselves quite early, attracted the attention of a number of prominent scholars, including Daniel Bernoulli, who in 1772 recommended him to Euler, then living in Russia, as a secretary. Fuss arrived in St. Petersburg at the age of seventeen and spent the rest of his life in Russia.""(DSB).
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