‎MACLAURIN (C.) -- NEWTON‎
‎Exposition des découvertes philosophiques de M. Le Chevalier NEWTON. Traduit de l'anglais par M. LAVIROTTE -- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE -- BON EXEMPLAIRE GRAND DE MARGES‎

‎P., Durand, 1749, un volume grand in 4 relié en pleine basane, dos orné de fers dorés, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque), (légères épidermures sur les plats), 57pp., 3pp. non chiffrées, 422pp., (1pp.), 6 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES‎

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‎---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE GRAND DE MARGES ---- "Maclaurin was educated at the University of Glasgow and at 19 was made professor of mathematics at Aberdeen. Two years later, he was admitted F.R.S. and made the acquaintance of Newton. In 1722, he went to France and won the prize of the French Academy of Sciences. On the recommandation of Newton, he was elected professor of mathematics in the University of Edinburgh in 1725 and helped form the Royal Society of Edinburgh... The prefixed account of the life and writings of the author is still the chief authority on him. The four books of this work treat : Of the method of proceeding in natural philosophy ; and the various systems of philosophers ; Of the theory of motion, or rational mechanics ; Gravity demonstrated by analysis ; The effects of the general power of gravity deduced synthetically. The last chapter treats of the supreme author and governor of the universe, the True and living god and ends with an argument in favor of a future life, which was dictated by the author but a few hours before his death". (Babson N° 85) ---- - DSB VIII pp. 609/612 - Cajori pp. 228/229 ---- Mémoires sur la vie et les écrits de M. MacLaurin - De la méthode qu'on doit suivre dans l'étude de la philosophie naturelle et des différens systèmes des philosophes - De la théorie du mouvement et des méchaniques rationelles - La gravité démontrée par l'analyse - Les effets de la gravités déduits synthétiquement**80730/8073/ARB4‎