EULER, LEONHARD. - A FOUNDING WORK IN WIND-MILL TECHNOLOGY.

Recherches plus exactes sur L'Effet des Moulins à Vent. (Refined studies into the effect of windmills)

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1758). 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres". tome XII, 1756. Pp. (2), 165-234 a. 1 folded engraved plate. Clean and fine. Having the Section-titlepage "Mémoires.... Classe de mathématique"

First printing of Euler's importent large memoir in which he develops the mathematical theory of windmills, and generates analytically the equations of the effects of winds on duoble-bended surfaces in relation to mechanical work, a founding work in the mathematical theory of wind wheel theory.

Enestroem E 233.

Order-nr.: 48839