RUGGERO BOSCOVICH. DE CENTRO GRAVITATIS DISSERTATIO. Roma ex typographia Komarek 1751

In 4
XXVII, [1] p., [1] c. of table folded. Complete
Non-coeval hardback binding
Rare first edition printed by Komarek, the second was also printed in Rome in the same year a few months later.
Boscovich in this book fluctuates through the natural philosophy of Isaac Newton and Leibniz at one extreme and Faraday in field theory at the other. The present treatise on gravity was published a few years after his De viribus vivis dissertatio, a work on the theme of living force in which he sets out his first statement of the law of universal force.