Exposition Du Systeme Du Monde

by Pierre-simon, Marquis De Laplace

• ISBN13: 9781108002097
• ISBN10: 1108002099
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-20
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

The work of the Marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) was enormously influential on the development of mathematical physics, astronomy and statistics. His Exposition du syst+me du monde (first published in 1796) is often regarded as the most important book on mechanics after Newton's Principia Mathematica, and the elegance and clarity of its style won Laplace a seat in the Acad_mie FranYaise. The book, which was translated into English in 1809, was intended to 'offer a complete solution of the great mechanical problem presented by the solar system'. It was in this work that Laplace offered his nebular hypothesis, which proposed that the solar system originated from the contraction and cooling of a cloud of incandescent gas. The book, here in its second edition of 1799, is an introduction to Laplace's multi-volume masterpiece, the Trait_ de M_canique C_leste, of which Mary Somerville's English version is also reissued in this series.

Table of Contents

Des mouvemens apparens des corps célestes

Des mouvemens réels des corps célestes

Des loix du mouvement

De la théorie de la pesanteur universelle

Précis de l'histoire de l'Astronomie

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