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FRENCH SCIENCE-- 18th & 19th CENTURY. A collection of approximately 19 autograph letters by scientists and mathematicians including
FRENCH SCIENCE-- 18th & 19th CENTURY. A collection of approximately 19 autograph letters by scientists and mathematicians including: François Gigot de la PEYRONIE (1678-1747, surgeon to Louis XV). Autograph letter signed to the Surgeon-Major at Rouen, n.p., October 1741, replying to a letter about surgical instruments, with detailed advice for an operation for the removal of kidney stones, 'Si vous pouvés ouvrir la vescie toujours dans le meme endroit et y faire une incision suffisante pour le passage d'une grosse pierre, vous ne devés pas procurer d'obstacles pour l'extraction de la pierre; je crois que la bride qui vous a arreté dans l'extractions des pierres, par cette methode, venoit du muscle erecteur, qu'on ne peut couper sans inconvenient ... ', 3½ pages, 4to , bifolium; and letters by Antoine-Augustin PARMENTIER (commenting flatteringly on [Cretté de Palluel]'s work, 'je ne doute pas que Vos observations Judicieuses ne déterminent de bonnes Lois. Je le désire pour le bonheur des cultivateurs'), Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (1781), Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenell, Louis Godin, René-Just Hauy (mineralogist, two letters, one dismissively advising a correspondent to apply for a ruling on his work to 'Monsieur de Condorcet, Secrétaire de la compagnie'), Joseph-Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (to a fellow astronomer, commenting on measuring apparatuses including a 'pendule a secondes', anticipating the opening of his correspondent's observatory and mentioning his own results); Ami Boué (doctor and geologist, on his study of urine in different illnesses), Paul Broca (2 letters to [Eugène] Azam, 1869 and 1872, referring Azam's new medical society and his own research on a disease of the oesophagus, and his work on tumours), Georges Oberhauser, Jean-Baptiste Say, Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, and other signatories including Hachette, Chasler, Lacroix, Painlevé. (16)