Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1730

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.