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1802 - Maupertuis,(P.L.M.)de.
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Maupertuis,(P.L.M.)de. La figure de la terre, determinee par les observations de Messieurs de Maupertuis, Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier... & Outhier... accompagnes de M. Celsius... au Cercle Polaire. Amsterdam, Catuffe 1738. Kl.8°. Mit gest. Titel- u. Kopfvign., 1 gefalt. Kupferstichkarte u. 9 gefalt. Kupfertaf. XXIV S., 2 Bl., 216 S. Läd. Ldr. d. Zt. Amsterdamer Nachdruck im Jahr der Pariser Erstausgabe. Poggendorff II, 85. Roller/Goodman II, 173. Vgl. DSB IX, 186. Chavanne 3128. Babson (Newton) 94. - Beschreibung der Expedition des Physikers und Mathematikers nach Lappland zur Feststellung des Längengrades: "Die aufsehenerregenden Vermessungsexpeditionen von Charles de La Condamine in das Äquatorgebiet (Peru) 1735 und von Pierre de Maupertuis jenseits des Polarkreises (Lappland) 1736/37 bewiesen die Theorie von der sphäroidischen, an den Polen abgeplatteten Gestalt der Erde" (Focus Behaim-Globus 162). Mit einer Karte des Polarkreises. - Tafeln wasserrandig, Titelbl. u. Vdeckel lose.
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