[Mathematics/Physics] Boscovich, Ruggero G. : De centro gravitatis dissertatio. Rome, ex typographia Komarek 1751

AMDG De centro gravitatis dissertatio habita in Collegio Romano Societ. Jesus PP. eiusdem societatis. Die 6. Augusti 1751. Rome ex typographia Komarek in via Cursus.
First edition of the treatise on gravity by the famous astronomer and mathematician Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711-1787).

Format in-8°, pp. 27, (1) + 1 c. of folding plates. Complete. White cardboard, silent back. Title page with Jesuit typographical device. Header and initials on c. A2. At the end 1 folding plate with geometric figures.
Boscovich in this book fluctuates through the natural philosophy of Isaac Newton and Leibniz on one extreme and Faraday in field theory on the other. This treatise on gravity was published a few years after his De viribus vivis dissertatio, a work on the subject of living force. in which he presents his first statement of the law of universal force.