BOUGUET, DE LA CAILLE
Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1751
Chez J. Schreuder • Pierre Mortier le jeune|A Amsterdam 1759|10 x 17 cm|3 volumes reliés
Edition illustrated with 5 plates for volume 1, 12 for volume 2 and 7 for volume 3, most folding, totalling 24 plates. Title pages in red and black.
Contemporary full marbled brown calf binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Red morocco title labels, and black wax volume labels. Some traces of rubbing. Headcap of volume 1 partly worn; a lack at head of volume 2; headcap of volume 3 partly torn.
Notable articles in each of the mentioned sections include the following: Memoir on the form of bodies most suited to revolve on themselves, when they are pushed by one of their extremities, or by any other point, by M. Bouguet. Observation of the last opposition of Mars with the sun, by M. de Thury. Memoir on the theory of artillery, or on the effects of gunpowder, by M. le chevalier d'Arcy. Remarks on observations of the parallax of the moon, by M. Bouguer. History of epidemic diseases of 1751, by M. Malouin. Memoir on some little-known fossil bodies, by M. Guettard. Immersion of the star u of the Arc of Sagittarius, under the dark disk of the moon, by M. le Monnier. Memoir on an elastic resin, newly discovered in Cayenne, by M. de la Condamine. Abridged account of the voyage made by order of the king to the Cape of Good Hope, by M. l'abbé de la Caille.
Contemporary full marbled brown calf binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Red morocco title labels, and black wax volume labels. Some traces of rubbing. Headcap of volume 1 partly worn; a lack at head of volume 2; headcap of volume 3 partly torn.
Notable articles in each of the mentioned sections include the following: Memoir on the form of bodies most suited to revolve on themselves, when they are pushed by one of their extremities, or by any other point, by M. Bouguet. Observation of the last opposition of Mars with the sun, by M. de Thury. Memoir on the theory of artillery, or on the effects of gunpowder, by M. le chevalier d'Arcy. Remarks on observations of the parallax of the moon, by M. Bouguer. History of epidemic diseases of 1751, by M. Malouin. Memoir on some little-known fossil bodies, by M. Guettard. Immersion of the star u of the Arc of Sagittarius, under the dark disk of the moon, by M. le Monnier. Memoir on an elastic resin, newly discovered in Cayenne, by M. de la Condamine. Abridged account of the voyage made by order of the king to the Cape of Good Hope, by M. l'abbé de la Caille.
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