Daniel BERNOULLI

Illustrated edition with 22 plates for volume 1, 21 for volume 2, most folding, totaling 41 plates. Title pages in red and black.
Contemporary full brown marbled calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title labels, and black wax volume labels. Upper joint of volume 2 narrowly cracked. 2 wormholes at foot. Rubbing. Good copy.
Notable articles to be retained in each of the mentioned sections include: Very simple solution to an astronomical problem from which a new method is derived for determining the nodes of planets, by M. Godin. Method for finding Tautochrones, in resistant mediums, as the square of velocities, by M. Bernouilli. Examination of fourth-order lines, or curves of the third kind, by the Abbé de Bragelongne. The curve Descensus aequabilis in a medium resistant as any power of velocity, by M. de Maupertuis. Method for determining the fate of as many players as desired, by M. Nicole. New properties of the hyperbola, by M. Mahieu. Reflections on the movement of waters, by M. Pitot.

First edition.

Full marbled calf binding , five spine compartments with gilt floral motifs, green morocco label,  marbled endpapers. Minor rubbing to boards, expertly restored at joints, corners, head and tail of spine. Very faint marginal dampstain to final leaves and folding plates.

Illustrated with a title vignette by Weis, twelve numbered folding plates, as well as numerous head- and tailpieces.

First edition of Bernoulli’s treatise that profoundly influenced the development of fluid mechanics for over a century. Hydrodynamica includes two landmark results: a proof of Boyle-Townley’s law and the eponymous equation describing fluid motion within a tube.