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POINSOT, L.
Eléments de Statique, à l'usage des lycées. Nouvelle édition, augmentée d'un Mémoire sur la composition des Moments et des Aires.
Paris : Volland, 1811 In-8, XII-271-30 pp., 4 planches dépliantes. Demi-basane havane à petits coins, dos lisse orné, non rogné (reliure de l'époque).
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Un coin émoussé. "Yet it was in mechanics that Poinsot most effectively displayed his gift for geometry. Although "Eléments de statique" (1803) was merely a manual designed for candidates to the Ecole Polytechnique, the work possessed the great merit of applying geometric methods to the study of elementary problems of mechanics and of introducing the concept of the couple..." (DSB XI-61/62). "This work is remarkable not only as being the earliest introduction to synthetic mechanics, but also as containing for the first time the idea of couples..." (F. Cajori, A History of Mathematics, p. 455).
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