Description and condition:

Blue cloth hardback, dustcover, 8vo, pp xii 322, index, bibliography.

Very good, blind-stamped personal library mark present, else nice bright clean pages. In very good dustcover.

Contents:

The book traces the development of Laplace's research program and his participation in the Academy of Science. The majority of the book is taken up with a scientific biography. Written with the collaboration of Robert Fox and Ivor Grattan-Guinness.