DIRICHLET, Peter Gustav Lejeune. Untersuchungen über ein Problem der Hydrodynamik. Aus dessen Nachlass hergestellt von R. Dedekind.
Göttingen: Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1860. First edition.

An offprint of the extensive memoir, published by Dedekind the following year of Dirichlet's death, containing Dirichlet's important contributions to theoretical hydrodynamics. “Among the later papers [by Dirichlet] on theoretical mechanics one must mention ‘Über die Bewegung eines festen Körpers in einem incompressibeln flüssigen Medium’ (1852), which deals with the motion of a sphere in an incompressible fluid; it is noteworthy for containing the first exact integration for the hydrodynamic equations. This subject occupied Dirichlet during his last years; in his final paper, ‘Untersuchungen über ein Problem der Hydrodynamik’ (1857), he examines a related topic, but this includes only a minor part of his hydrodynamic theories. After his death, his notes on these subjects were edited and published by Dedekind in an extensive memoir [the offered item]”. (DSB IV: 126).

4to: 268 x 218 mm. Later plain wrappers with manuscript label, originally issued without wrappers. A fine copy. 52, (2:blank) pp.