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1906rif. 35115London: Arthur L. Humphries 1906. First Edition. The text presented in both French and English on pages opposite to one another. Title-page printed in red and black. 8vo handsomely bound Zaehnsdorf in full tan polished calf gilt the covers with interlocking borders of gilt fillet rules and roll-tooled decorations ending in corner pieces executed in blind the spine with raised bands separating the compartments which are fully gilt decorated within panels top edge gilt others untrimmed marbled endleaves. iv 187 pp. A very good copy the text-block and prelims all in fine order clean and bright the binding strong and pleasing with a bit of very mild rubbing at the extremities. FIRST EDITION TAKEN FROM THE COLLECTION OF NAPOLEON'S MAXIMS MADE BY A.G. DE LIANCOURT AND TRANSLATED BY J.A. MANNING. With a great profusion of examples and surprisingly enlightening in that many of the maxims will elicit surprise. "The best cure for the body is to quiet the mind." "In great crises it is the lot of women to soften our misfortunes." "The greater the man the less is he opinionative he depends upon events." "A man worthy of the name hates no one." "We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him." "It is both noble and courageous to rise above misfortune." "Liberty and equality are magical words." "We should wash our dirty linen at home." et al. A splendid tranche of maxims by one of the most consequential individuals of all time. And as with other books printed by Arthur Humphries an elegant one. Arthur L. Humphries hardcover
1767rif. 39044Berlin Haude et Spener 1767 and Berlin Ch. Fr. Voss 1774. 4to. Without wrappers as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres" Tome XXI pp. 364-380 and " Nouveau Mémoires." pp. 97-122. Both first edition in the journal form. Huygens proved Geometrically in 1659 that the tautochrone was a cycloid curve. This solution was later used to attack the problem of the Brachistochrone curve. Jacob Bernoulli solved the problem by using calculus in a paper from 1690 which for the first time used the term 'integral'. Both Lagrange and Euler loked for an analytical solution to the problem. Lagrange in the papers offered here developed a formal calculus based on the analogy between Newton's theorem and the successive differentiations of the product of two functions. He also communicated this to Eule in a letter written in Latin slightly before the Italian publication. In a letter to D'Alembert in 1769 Lagrange confirmed that this method of maxima and minima was the first fruit of his studies - he was only 19 when he divised it - and that he regarded it as his best work.A paper by Leonhard Euler:¨Éclaircissement plus détailles sur La generation et Propagation du Son et sur la Formation de L'Echo" Berlin Academy Royale 1767" in first edition withbound. unknown