Moyen de substituer commodement l'action du feu, a la force des hommes et des cheveaux pour mouvoir les machines (Method of substituting the force of fire for horse and man power to move machines) WITH De la resistance causee dans les Machines, tant par les frottemens des parties qui les composent, que par roideur des cordes qu'on y employe, & la maniere de calculer l'un & l'autre (On the resistance caused in machines, both by the rubbing of the parts that compose them and by the stiffness of the cords that one uses in them, & the way of calculating both) in Histoire de l'Academie royale des sciences, Année MDCXCIX (1699). Amsterdam: Chez Gerard Kuyper MDCCVI (1706), pp. 154-172 and pp. 257-278 [FULL VOLUME]
Full volume. 1699 FIRST EDITION OF GUILLAUME AMONTONS’S TWO PAPERS ESTABLISHING THE CONCEPT OF FRICTION AS WELL AS THE LAW OF PROPORTIONALITY, the idea that frictional force is proportional to normal forces. Submitted to the Academy on 20 June and 19 December of the same year, respectively, the titles translate..... More