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BOSCOVICH, Ruggiero Giuseppe (1711-1787). De Mercurii novissimo infra Solem transitu. Rome: Antonio de Rubeis, 1737.
4° (270 x 190mm). Woodcut title vignette, one folding engraved plate. (Without final blank A8). Modern wrappers.
A RARE ASTRONOMICAL TREATISE on the transit of Mercury across the Sun occurring in November 1736. ‘Boscovich was perhaps the last great polymath to figure in an important way in the history of science’ (DSB II, p.326). Riccardi I(i) 172.2. Not in Houzeau and Lancaster.
4° (270 x 190mm). Woodcut title vignette, one folding engraved plate. (Without final blank A8). Modern wrappers.
A RARE ASTRONOMICAL TREATISE on the transit of Mercury across the Sun occurring in November 1736. ‘Boscovich was perhaps the last great polymath to figure in an important way in the history of science’ (DSB II, p.326). Riccardi I(i) 172.2. Not in Houzeau and Lancaster.
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