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EULER, LEONHARD. 1707-1783. Opuscula varii argumenti. Berlin Ambrosius Haude & Johann Carl Spener, 1746-1751. image 1
EULER, LEONHARD. 1707-1783. Opuscula varii argumenti. Berlin Ambrosius Haude & Johann Carl Spener, 1746-1751. image 2
EULER, LEONHARD. 1707-1783. Opuscula varii argumenti. Berlin Ambrosius Haude & Johann Carl Spener, 1746-1751. image 3
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EULER, LEONHARD. 1707-1783.
Opuscula varii argumenti. Berlin: Ambrosius Haude & Johann Carl Spener, 1746-1751.

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EULER, LEONHARD. 1707-1783.

Opuscula varii argumenti. Berlin: Ambrosius Haude & Johann Carl Spener, 1746-1751.
3 volumes bound in 1. 4to (210 x 174 mm). 12 folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled boards. Rubbed, corners bumped, handling wear and light browning.
Provenance: H[ermann] Hankel (German mathematician, 1839-1873 - ownership signature on front free endpaper dated 1859; J[ohann Heinrich Jakob] Müller (German mathematician, 1809-1875 - ownership inscription on front free endpaper dated 1874).

FIRST EDITION. Composed of 14 treatises on physics, optics, movement of the planets, magnetism and other topics. Some of them were previously published separately, including "Novam theoriam magnetis" and "Nova theoria lucis et colorum", in which Euler advocates a wave theory of light. His mathematical approach to determining the orbits of planets and paths of other celestial bodies was highly important, and the first volume contain the first complete printing of "Tabulae astronomicae solis & lunae," which incorporated perturbations of astronomical trajectories due to gravitation — the first published chart to include those calculations. Poggendorff I, 689; Houzeau-Lancaster 3482.

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