(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1717). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1714". Pp. 208-229, 7 textfigs.
First appearance of this importent paper in which John Bernoulli gives his famous solution to the question of the center of oscillation. The solutions of Bernoulli and Brook Taylor were in principle identical and became an occasion of a grat dispute between these two eminent mathematicians.
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