Mémoire sur l'equilibre et le mouvement des corps élastiques. Lu à l'Académie, le 14 Avril 1828 by POISSON, Siméon Denis - 1829

Paris, 1829. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Offprint from: Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences VIII, Paris 1829. 4to (268x210 mm), pp. (357)-570. Plain wrappers, uncut and unopened, in custom-built half leather and linen cloth cassette. An internally clean and unfoxed copy. ---- Roberts/Trent 259. - The first appearance of one of Poisson's many important papers on mathematical physics, in which he placed on a firm footing his concept of physical mechanics, "the principle of which is to reduce everything to molecular actions"