Letters of Euler on different subjects in physics and philosophy. Addressed to a German Princess. Transl....by Henry Hunter. ...2 vols.

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London: Printed for Murray and Highley 1802. With 20 full-page plates. Fine. NOTE: Euler was a prolific Swiss scientist whose work at the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg effectively founded the Russian scientific community. His concept of the unity of the forces of nature acting deterministically in some medium as outlined in his Letters was his most important contribution to physics.