拍品 131
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MAUPERTIUS, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759). La figure de la terre, déterminée par les observations ... au cercle polaire. Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1738. 8° (194 x 121mm). 9 folding engraved plates and one folding map (plate 6 a little stained). Contemporary marbled calf, spine with raised bands, ruled and decorated gilt in compartments, morocco lettering piece (tail of spine chipped, extremities a little rubbed and scuffed).
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MAUPERTIUS, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759). La figure de la terre, déterminée par les observations ... au cercle polaire. Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1738. 8° (194 x 121mm). 9 folding engraved plates and one folding map (plate 6 a little stained). Contemporary marbled calf, spine with raised bands, ruled and decorated gilt in compartments, morocco lettering piece (tail of spine chipped, extremities a little rubbed and scuffed).

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MAUPERTIUS, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759). La figure de la terre, déterminée par les observations ... au cercle polaire. Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1738. 8° (194 x 121mm). 9 folding engraved plates and one folding map (plate 6 a little stained). Contemporary marbled calf, spine with raised bands, ruled and decorated gilt in compartments, morocco lettering piece (tail of spine chipped, extremities a little rubbed and scuffed).

FIRST EDITION. 'A famous book on the applanation of the earth at the poles. Maupertius adopted and explained Newton's propositions on attraction and on the figure of the earth; and he conducted an expedition to Lapland, for the measurement of an arc of the meridian, the result of which was fatal to the Cassinian hypothesis', Babson 94; Norman 1458.
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