MILLIN (Aubin-Louis). Homeric Mineralogy, or Essay on the minerals mentioned in the poems of Homer. Second edition. Paris, C. Wasermann, 1816. In-8, navy blue half calf, smooth spine decorated, spotted tr. (rel. milieu XIXe). Some foxing. A good copy. The first edition was published in 1790. Curious work in which the author tries to know the state of the perception of minerals in the Homeric period from the indications scattered in the corpus of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Halfway between philology and the history of science, the work has not really made a mark.

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