The Theory of Screws. A Study in the Dynamics of Rigid Body.

Dublin, Hodges, Foster, and Co., 1876. Cont. full blindtooled cloth. Hinges broken, back somewhat discoloured. Top a. bottom of back somewhat worn. Internally clean and fine. Untrimmed. Lithogr. frontisp.,XXIV,194 pp. The scarce first edition and the first announcement in bookform of the author's "Theory of Screws". "The Theory presented in the following paper was first sketched by the author in a Paper.to the Royal Irish Academy (1871). The entire theory has been re-written and systematically arranged, in the present volume." Through the next 30 years Ball elaborated his theory based on Non-Euclidean conceptions. He dealt with a four-dimensional space in the biased language of Euclidean geometry, the "content" of space was elliptic.