FOSSOMBRONI, Vittorio, Conte.

Memoria sul Principio delle Velocità virtuali.

One engraved plate. 191, [1] pp. 4to, modern boards, uncut. Florence: G. Cambiagi, 1796. First edition of this attractive and scarce book. “Fossombroni’s goal was to translate Galileo’s formulation of virtual velocities into the algebraic language of Lagrange’s Méchanique analytique and to apply them to practical hydraulic problems. His work also draws upon the Hydrodynamica of Daniel Bernoulli, hydraulic studies by d’Albembert and Euler, and Prony’s Nouvelle architecture hydraulique.”–Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, p. 117. Fossombroni (1754-1844), Tuscan statesman, hydraulic engineer, and mathematician, wrote a series of works on physics and mathematics during the early years of his career. Very good copy. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica. ❧ Poggendorff, I, 779.

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