LAMBERT, JOHANN HEINRICH.

Sur le Frottement entant qu'il rallentit le mouvement.

(Berlin, C.F. Voss, 1774). 4to. Uncut without wrappers as extracted from "Nouveaus Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", Annee 1772., pp. 9-32 and 1 engraved plate.

First edition. In this paper Lambert develops a theory of friction and confronts it with experimental results by himself and others.

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