Daviet published in the years 1759-1760 two important papers in the journal of the Academy, Miscellanea Taurinensis:, page 126. the first one (1759) about imaginary numbers is titled Mémoire sur les logarithmes des quantités négatives, page 285. and has an extension titled Éclaircissements sur les quantités imaginaires; more important is the second one, titled Sur les principes fondamentaux de la méchanique (1761)., pages 127-135. In four sections (law of inertia, composition of forces, equilibrium and law of the lever) he tried to establish the a priori fundamental laws of mechanics., pages 398-399.
