BUGGE, THOMAS.
De Første Grunde til den sphæriske og theoretiske Astronomie, samt den mathematiske Geographie.
Kiøbenhavn (Copenhagen), Poulsens forlag, 1796.
8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, spine miscoloured. Internally very nice and clean. (6), VI, 372, 27 pp. + 12 plates.
First edition of Bugge's textbook on theoretical astronomy in which Bugge made it clear to university students that physics meant Newtonian physics. ”Newtons sindrige System er fra ikkun Hypothese; men det gaaer over til mathematisk Vished, fordi alle Planeternes Bevægelser, ingen undtagen, deraf kan ei allene forklares, at de maa være til, og hvorfor de er saadanne, som de ere; men endog deres Maal og Størrelse lader sig beregne og bestemme.” (The present work, p. 132 – i.e. English: “Newton’s ingenious system began as a mere hypothesis but has become a mathematical certainty because it not only explains the motion and existence of all planetary motions without exception, and why they are as they are; but it even makes it possible to calculate and determine their measures and magnitudes.”).
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