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PITOT & MAIRAN Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1725

PITOT & MAIRAN

Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1725

Chez Pierre Mortier, A Amsterdam 1732, In-12 (10x17cm), (12) 206pp. ; 248pp. et (2) 249-507p. (8), 2 volumes reliés.


Illustrated edition of 7 boards for volume 1, 10 for volume 2, most unfolding, 17 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. Friction. Nice copy.
The following remarkable articles are to be found in each of the sections mentioned: Dissertation on the operation of cataract, by M. Petit. Description of a pump which can usefully be used in fires by M. DU FAY. Elementary properties of irregular polygons circumscribed around the circle, by M. Pitot. Observations on the preparation of Prussian blue, by M. Geoffroy the Elder.Ramas on the inscription of the cube in the octahedron and the octahedron in the cube, by M. de Mairan. Observations on the question of the largest and smallest quantities, by M. Saurin.

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Réf : 61396

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