Entereccording to Act of Congress in the rear 1933 by HI Bowditch in the Clerks Office of th Tastnet Cont of Missachusetts

MÉCANIQUE CÉLESTE.

BY THE

MARQUIS DE LA PLACE,

PEER OF FRANCE; GRAND CROSS OF THE LEGION OF HONOR; MEMBER OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY, OF THE ACADEMY
OF SCIENCES OF PARIS, OF THE BOARD OF LONGITUDE OF FRANCE, OF THE ROYAL SOCIETIES OF

LONDON AND GÖTTINGEN, OF THE ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES OF RUSSIA, DENMARK,

SWEDEN, PRUSSIA, HOLLAND, AND ITALY; MEMBER OF THE

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES; ETC.

TRANSLATED, WITH A COMMENTARY,

BY

NATHANIEL BOWDITCH, LL. D.

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND DUBLIN;

OF LONDON, OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, OF THE AMERICAN
ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL
SOCIETIES OF BERLIN, PALERMO; ETC.

VOLUME IV.

WITH A MEMOIR OF THE TRANSLATOR,

BY HIS SON,

NATHANIEL INGERSOLL BOWDITCH.

DIVINITY SCHOO

LIBRARY.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

BOSTON:

FROM THE PRESS OF ISAAC R. BUTTS;

CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN, PUBLISHERS.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by

N. I. BOWDITCH,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

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