The fifth volume, in the original French, contains mainly historical material and completes the four volumes of the Bowditch annotated translation. The main feature of this volume is a masterly critico-historical discussion of the subject. In addition, there are various supplements to the matters treated in the first four volumes.
Celestial Mechanics, Volume V (Ams Chelsea Publishing) (French Edition)
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Author(s)Pierre Simon Laplace
PublisherAmerican Mathematical Society
ISBN / ASIN0828402140
ISBN-139780828402149
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One of the landmarks in the history of human thought. This is a reprint of the famous English translation, with an extraordinary running commentary by Nathaniel Bowditch of the first four volumes of the Mecanique Celeste.