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DE LA CAILLE & CASSINI DE THURY Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1741

DE LA CAILLE & CASSINI DE THURY

Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1741

Chez Pierre Mortier, A Amsterdam 1747, In-12 (10x17cm), (12) 274pp. ; 199pp. (2) 203-559p. (8), 2 volumes reliés.


Illustrated edition of 5 boards for volume 1, 13 for volume 2, most unfolding, or 18 boards. Title pages in red and black.
Binding full brown marbled vintage calf. Back to nerves adorned. Title pieces in red morocco, and tomaison in black wax. Small part coming off in a headdress. 3 blunt corners. Friction. Headdress of volume 3 partially removed. Good copy.
The following remarkable articles are to be found in each of the sections mentioned: The measurement of the diameters of the largest planets, by M. Du Hamel. ReseArches paper on the cause of the boiling of liquids, by Abbe Nollet. Observations of the solar eclipse, July 25, 1748, by M. de Thury, Cassini, Maraldi. Memoirs on the variations which one notices in the solsticiales heights, as well of summer as of winter, by M. de Thury. New invention of ardent mirrors, by M. de Buffon. Observations of the vertical diameter of the sun at the time of passage by its apogee, by M. Le Monnier. On the figures and the solids circumscribed to the circle and the sphere, by M. Zanotti.

380 €

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