Oeuvres complètes, publiées sous les auspices de l'Academie des sciences
The collected works of Pierre Simon Laplace, issued in Paris by Gauthier-Villars from 1878 under the Académie des sciences, gathering his writings on celestial mechanics, tides and probability for mathematicians and astronomers. The single indexed image is a French letterpress page with centred displayed equations, fractions and primed variables, useful as period mathematical typesetting or textured background.
