BOREL, Pierre (ca. 1620-1671). Discours nouveau prouvant la pluralit des Mondes, que les Astres sont des terres habites, & la terre une Estoile, qu'elle est hors du centre du monde dans le troisiesme Ciel, & le tourne devant le Soleil qui est fixe, & autres choses tres-curieuses. Geneva: n.p., 1657. 8o in 4s (171 x 105 mm).(Tear on final leaf K4 with loss of a few letters, some slight marginal worming and fraying). Later? stabbed marbled wrappers. Provenance: Early signature on title-page. FIRST EDITION. Borel, physician to the King of France, was an active collector of rarities, plants, antiquities, and minerals, as well as manuscripts and books of the Hermetic philosophers or chemists. He had previously written on the telescope and its history, and was the first to apply microscopy to medicine. This work, dedicated to Sir Kenelm Digby, is devoted to various astronomical observations. It was translated into English in 1658. Ferguson, p. 116. RARE.

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BOREL, Pierre (ca. 1620-1671). Discours nouveau prouvant la pluralit des Mondes, que les Astres sont des terres habites, & la terre une Estoile, qu'elle est hors du centre du monde dans le troisiesme Ciel, & le tourne devant le Soleil qui est fixe, & autres choses tres-curieuses. Geneva: n.p., 1657. 8o in 4s (171 x 105 mm).(Tear on final leaf K4 with loss of a few letters, some slight marginal worming and fraying). Later? stabbed marbled wrappers. Provenance: Early signature on title-page. FIRST EDITION. Borel, physician to the King of France, was an active collector of rarities, plants, antiquities, and minerals, as well as manuscripts and books of the Hermetic philosophers or chemists. He had previously written on the telescope and its history, and was the first to apply microscopy to medicine. This work, dedicated to Sir Kenelm Digby, is devoted to various astronomical observations. It was translated into English in 1658. Ferguson, p. 116. RARE.