MAUPERTUIS, (PIERRE LOUIS MOREAU DE).

La Courbe descensus aequabilis dans un Milieu resistant comme une Puissange quelconque de la Vitesse.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1732). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1730". Pp. 233-242.

First appearance of a main paper in analytical mechanics. Maupertuis gives a new treatment of the curves assumed by moving bodies in resistent media. This paper positioned him as a direct heir to the analytical mechanics program in France.

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