Discours sur les loix de la communication du mouvement : qui a merité les Eloges de l'Academie Royale des Sciences aux années 1724. & 1726. & qui a concouru à l'occasion des Prix distribuez dans lesdites années / par Jean Bernoulli.

A Paris ... : Chez Claude Jombert ..., 1727.

2 unnumbered pages, 108 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 5 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 27 cm (4to)

Errata: t.p. verso and final leaf recto, the latter headed "Fautes à corriger ... outre celles qui sont notées dans l'Imprimé"

"Bernoulli's treatise was first submitted to the Paris Académie des sciences for the 1724 contest on hard bodies; disqualified, it was re-submitted (with a supplementary chapter) for the 1726 contest on elastic bodies, and was first published in 1727 in Paris"--Heimann: "'Geometry and nature' ". Centaurus, 1977, 21, p. 1.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Sir W. Paton's executors Note: Binding: Modern cloth. From the library of Sir William Paton X177301