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Paris: Nyon, 1782. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Rebound in qaurter leather, black leatehr label spine. 8vo, vi+368, sides trimmed, stained red. Internals quite nice. Second edition, with advertisement for both first and second edition, plus errata sheet, in front. CHINA JESUITS.

1727 1ed Academy of Sciences Astronomy Mars & Venus Anatomy Chemistry Mechanics

'History of the Royal Academy of Sciences' is an 18th-century collection of essays on various scientific and philosophical topics. Also known as the French Academy of Sciences, this society was established to encourage scientific research and develop the interest in the sciences in France.
This volume includes essays on mechanics, astronomy, geometry, algebra, botany, chemistry, and human anatomy. Of note is the fascinating article containing observations of Mars and Venus.

Item number: #14610
Price: $499
MAIRAN, Jean-Jacques Dortous
Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences, Année M. DCCXXII
Amsterdam: chez Pierre de Coup, 1727. 1st edition

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
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[8], 204; 526
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19 folding plates
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5 folding tables
· Language: French
· Binding: Vellum; tight & secure
· Size: ~6.25in X 4in (16cm x 10cm)
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1749. Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1749. Small 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt back. Triple gilt lineborder on covers. Upper compartment of back repaired. Leather along fronthinge cracking, but holding and cover not loose. Spine rubbed. All edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece. XXIX,(10),384,XX pp. and 5 folded engraved plates. Mairan was member of the Academie Des Sciences from 1719 and he served as its secretary from 1741 to 1743. "He was an importent and sometimes controversial figure in the scientific community of his day. Working in the decades during which Newtonian ideas were becoming known in France, Mairan incorporated some of them in his theories; but he remained basically Cartesian." (DSB). He made importent studies on Aurora Borealis.His work here on ice, liquids, fluids and evaporations, was inspired by his experiences of the slowness of which ice melts and that it melts faster mixed with differents salts in freezing mixtures. It incorporates details of quantitative experiments, and… Read More

Amsterdam: Mortier, 1735. hardcover. near fine. Title printed in red & black with printer's device. Illustrated with 17 copperplate engraved folding plates (27 figures) and one folding table. [10], 392 pages. Short 8vo, older cloth-backed marbled boards. Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1735. Light foxing, otherwise a near fine copy.<br/> <br/> An Amsterdam reprint of the earliest exhaustive treatise on the aurora borealis, two quarto editions of which had previously been published at Paris in 1733 and 1734. Mairan attributed the phenomenon of the aurora borealis to an extension of the sun's atmosphere, which at times, he supposed, enveloped the Earth, and blended with our atmosphere. The zodiacal light was similarly accounted for.<br/> <br/>

1717 Academy Sciences Astronomy Satellites Chemistry Bladder Diseases PROVENANCE

'History of the Royal Academy of Sciences' is an 18th-century collection of essays on various scientific and philosophical topics. Also known as the French Academy of Sciences, this society was established to encourage scientific research and develop the interest in the sciences in France.
This volume contains essays on physics, anatomy, chemistry, astronomy, and mechanics, with notable articles on:
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Changes in acids and alkalis
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Prolapsed and herniated bladder treatments
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General observations of satellites
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Notes on the distances from the earth to stars
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Principles and behaviors of fluids
Item number: #18607
Price: $599
MAIRAN, Jean-Jacques Dortous
Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences, Année M. DCCXVII
A Paris: de l'imprimerie Royale, 1719.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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[8], 92; 304
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14 plates
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1733. Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1733. 4to. No wrappers. (8),281 pp. and 15 folded engraved plates. A few minor brownspots. Clean and fine. First edition of this monumental work on the Northern Lights, being the first general treatise on the subject. Mairan disputes the explanation that the Northern Lights are caused by volcanic exhalations and suggest instead that the cause derives from the sun's atmosphere. (Parkinson, Breakthroughs, 1733). - Darmstaedter, 1733 M.