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1802 - Maupertuis, (P.L.M.) de.
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Maupertuis, (P.L.M.) de. The Figure of the Earth, Determined by the Observations of Messrs. de Maupertuis, Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier... & Outhier... accompanied by Mr. Celsius... at the Arctic Circle. Amsterdam, Catuffe 1738. Small 8°. With engraved title page and header vignette, 1 folded copperplate map, and 9 folded copperplate plates. XXIV pp., 2 leaves, 216 pp. Bound in contemporary leather. Amsterdam reprint in the year of the Paris first edition. Poggendorff II, 85. Roller/Goodman II, 173. See DSB IX, 186. Chavanne 3128. Babson (Newton) 94. - Description of the physicist and mathematician’s expedition to Lapland to determine the longitude: "The sensational surveying expeditions of Charles de La Condamine to the equatorial region (Peru) in 1735 and of Pierre de Maupertuis beyond the Arctic Circle (Lapland) in 1736/37 proved the theory of the Earth’s spheroidal shape, flattened at the poles” (Focus Behaim Globe 162). With a map of the Arctic Circle. - Plates with water stains; title page and front cover loose.
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Auction 146 - Day 2Auction house
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