Mécanique céleste / By the marquis de La Place (Peer of France; Grand Cross of hte Legion of Honor; Member of the French Academy, of the Academy of Sciences of Paris, of the Board of Longitude of France, of the Royal Societies of London and Göttingen, of the Academies of Sciences of Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Prussia, Holland, and Italy; Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, etc.) ; translated, with a commentary, by Nathaniel Bowditch (Fellow of the Royal Societies of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin; of the Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia; of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, etc.).

Author/creator Laplace, Pierre Simon author.
Other author Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 translator.
Other author Bowditch, N. I. (Nathaniel Ingersoll), 1805-1861, contributor.
Format Electronic
PublicationBoston : Hillard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, Publishers, 1829-39.
Description1 online resource (4 volumes) : illustrations, portraits.
Supplemental ContentGale, Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
Supplemental ContentGale, Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
Supplemental ContentGale, Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
Supplemental ContentGale, Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
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Uniform titleTraité de mécanique céleste. English
SeriesWomen's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents v. I. 1st book. On the general laws of equilibrium and motion. 2d book. On the law of universal gravitation, and the motions of the centres of gravity of the heavenly bodies.--v. II. 3d book. On the figures of the heavenly bodies. 4th book. On the oscillations of the sea and atmosphere. 5th book. On the motions of the heavenly bodies about their own centres of gravity.--v. III. 6th book. Theory of the planetary motions. 7th book. Theory of the moon. Appendix, presented by the author to the Board of longitude of France, August 17, 1808. Appendix by the translator. Tables.--v. IV. 8th book. Theory of the satellites of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. 9th book. Theory of comets. 10th book. On several subjects relative to the system of the world. Supplement to the tenth book: On capillary attraction. Supplement to the theory of capillary attraction.
General noteOn t.-p. of v. 4: With a memoir of the translator, by his son, Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch. Boston, C.C. Little and J. Brown.
General noteReproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
LanguageText in English translated from French.

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