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The First Treatise On Capillarity


BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso. De Motionibus Naturalibus a Gravitate Pendentibus Liber... Calabria, Dominici Ferri, 1670.

Very rare first edition of this important work on mechanics by Borelli and the first treatise on capillarity.
$8,850





Very Rare Coulomb Off-Print


COULOMB, Charles Augustin. Thie des Machines simples, en ayant rd au frottement de leurs parties et a la roideur des Corages. Piece qui a remporte Prix double de l'Acade des Sciences pour l'ann 1781. Paris, L'Imprimerie de Moutard, 1782.

Rare off-print of the great physicist's most important work on friction, with an imprint three years before publication in journal form (1785), and considerably in advance (27 years) of the first appearance in book form.
$7,500





Collisions In Prague


MARCI A KRONLAND, Johannes Marcus de. De proportione motus Figurarum Recti Linearum et Circuli Quadrata ex Motu. Prague, Typographica Academica, 1648.

Very rare first edition of this work on the theory of collisions, responding in part to criticisms made of his 1639 title, De proportione motus seu Regula sphygmica as well as developing new theories.
$13,500





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