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Hermann, Jakob
Phoronomia, sive de viribus et motibus corporum, solidarum et fluidrum. Duo books., 1716
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Amsterdam: Apud Rod. & Gerh. Wetstenios, 1716. 4th, artistic allegorical frontispiece drawn and engraved on copper by the Dutch painter Jan Wandelaar, pp. (16)-401-(3) with 12 plates of mathematical figures engraved on copper and folded f.t. At the end of the volume, 4 manuscript pages of commentary in Latin contemporary with the work have been added. Light browning, blooms. Coeval binding in full parchment, six-compartment spine with gusset, gold title and dry-engraved friezes, series of concentric frames on the plates with large central "fleuron", all dry-engraved, slight defects.
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First edition of the first textbook on theoretical mechanics based on Leibniz's calculus, important for containing the first published discussion of the kinetic theory of gases. "This textbook concerned advanced mechanics in the modern sense and was considered an important work, very favorably reviewed by Leibniz himself in the Acta Erudorum" (Fellmann in DSB). “The beginning of the kinetic theory of gases is usually assigned to the year 1738, when Daniel Bernoulli's “Hydrodynamica” appeared in Strasbourg. The famous tenth section of this book pursued some of the consequences of the hypothesis that “elastic fluids” consisted of innumerable tiny, rapidly moving particles.[However, an] earlier attempt dates back to 1716, and is found in the "Phoronomia" of Bernoulli's compatriot, Jacob Hermann: Hermann's chapter XXIV is the first attempt to deal mathematically with the relations between heat and motion. The intuition that the speed of particles must be squared off is particularly noteworthy, but perhaps no more so than the assumption that their speeds will not all be the same, so an average must be taken" (Knowles Middleton). "In 1716, the Swiss mathematician Jakob Hermann (1678-1733) published his book on theoretical mechanics, Phoronomia, in which he proposed the first precise measurement of the heat of molecular motion.
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