Where can I find Pierre-Simon Laplace's Mécanique Céleste?

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In summary, the speaker has been searching for all five volumes of Mécanique Céleste by Laplace but has only been able to find volumes one and five on Google books. They ask for help in finding the remaining volumes and mention that they believe the book is not copyrighted. Another person suggests checking archive.org, where they find that volumes one, two, three, and four are available in English translation by Nathaniel Bowditch. The speaker thanks them and notes that they only need four volumes.
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I've been hunting for all five volumes of Mécanique Céleste by Laplace but I can't find all 5 translated to English. I found volumes one and five on Google books but the other three have remained hidden to me. Anybody who has a copy of this book or knows where to find a copy, please share your knowledge. I would assume that this book is not copy righted so distributing it would be fine but I may be wrong. Thanks.
 
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Try archive.org
 
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I checked archive.org and they seem to only have volume one and maybe two.
 
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It seems that your search was sloppy. At least the translation by Nathaniel Bowditch is there in four volumes:
http://archive.org/details/mcaniquecles01laplrich
http://archive.org/details/mcaniquecles02laplrich
http://archive.org/details/mcaniquecles03laplrich
http://archive.org/details/mcaniquecles04laplrich

Wikipedia claims that there is a 5 volume English version without stating the author (maybe the same) which includes the original French. Maybe you have been searching for that one, but then I guess a translator's name would help...
 
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0xDEADBEEF said:
It seems that your search was sloppy. At least the translation by Nathaniel Bowditch is there in four volumes:
http://archive.org/details/mcaniquecles01laplrich
http://archive.org/details/mcaniquecles02laplrich
http://archive.org/details/mcaniquecles03laplrich
http://archive.org/details/mcaniquecles04laplrich

Wikipedia claims that there is a 5 volume English version without stating the author (maybe the same) which includes the original French. Maybe you have been searching for that one, but then I guess a translator's name would help...

Thanks, I think 4 volumes will suffice. I don't know why I couldn't find the third and fourth volumes. Thanks again :)
 

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