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MAIRAN, Jean Jacques d'Ortous de (1678-1771). Traité physique et historique de l'aurore boréale. Paris: l'Imprimerie Royale, 1733.
4o (242 x 173). 15 engraved folding plates (plate II shaved at lower margin, slightly affecting plate). (Some minor worming along gutter of first few gatherings, not affecting text.) Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces (some minor wear along joints). Provenance: Auguste-Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy (1732-1789), plant physiologist and archaeologist, who was a member of the Académie Royale des Sciences (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, in which Mairan proposes that the aurora were vapors from the sun that entered Earth's atmosphere. This treatise is published as Suite des Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences for the year 1731.
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FIRST EDITION, in which Mairan proposes that the aurora were vapors from the sun that entered Earth's atmosphere. This treatise is published as Suite des Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences for the year 1731.