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BUQUOY, Georg Franz August de Longueval, Graf von. Analytische Bestimmung des Gesetzes der virtuellen Geschwindigkeiten in mechanischer and statischer Hinsicht. 72 pp. 8vo, cont. marbled boards (title a little spotted). Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1812.

[bound with]:

-- . Weitere Entwickelung und Anwendung des Gesetzes der virtuellen Geschwindigkeiten in mechanischer and statischer Hinsicht. xii, 164 pp. 8vo. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1814.

First editions. "These two rare works deal with the analytical determination of the laws of virtual velocity in relation to mechanics and statics. The second work is a continuation, containing material Buquoy was unable to include in the earlier work. Throughout, he makes reference to various authorities, including Archimedes, Bernoulli, Lagrange, Laplace, and to the work of Dalton and Eytelwein."Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, p. 57.

Buquoy (1781-1851), wrote many works on various aspects of physics and technology and was the owner of a large glassworks.

Fine copies. The second work is not in N.U.C. Bookplate and stamp of the Berlin Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica.

Poggendorff, I, 343-44.

1250.0000