FARRAR, John.

An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics, comprehending the Doctrine of Equilibrium and Motion, as applied to Solids and Fluids, chiefly compiled, and designed for the Use of the Students of the University at Cambridge, New England.

Ten folding engraved plates. vii, 440 pp. 8vo, orig. cloth-backed boards (foxing), label on spine. Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf, at the University Press, 1825. First edition. Farrar (1779-1853), Hollis professor of mathematics and natural history at Harvard, "was responsible for conceiving and carrying through a sweeping modernization of the science and mathematics curriculum at Harvard College...He brought in the best French and other European writings on introductory mathematics, most of them unknown and unused in the United States."­D.S.B., IV, p. 546. Apart from the seemingly inevitable foxing, a fine copy. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica.

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