CAUCHY, Augustin-Louis. Sur la mécanique céleste et sur un nouveau calcul qui s’applique a un grand nombre de questions diverses.
Paris: Firmin Didot, 1831. First edition, offprint issue.

This paper, published in the 'Bulletin universel des sciences', consists of the introductory text of his lengthy 1831 memoire 'Sur la mécanique céleste et sur un nouveau calcul appelée calcul des limites' in which Cauchy first stated his famous integral formula. The full text was first published as a lithographed treatise in Turin 1831, and later reprinted in his 'Exercices d'analyse et de physique mathématique', 1841.

Offprint from: Bulletin universel des sciences et de l'industrie. 8vo: 206 x 138 mm. Contemporary plain wrappers, manuscript label on upper cover. 12 pp.