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Auction archive: Lot number 343

MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759). La figure de la terre, déterminée par les observations de Messieurs de Maupertuis, Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier, de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, & de M. l'Abbé Outhier... Accompangnés de M. Celsius, P...

Auction 14.06.2006
14 Jun 2006
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$540
Auction archive: Lot number 343

MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759). La figure de la terre, déterminée par les observations de Messieurs de Maupertuis, Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier, de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, & de M. l'Abbé Outhier... Accompangnés de M. Celsius, P...

Auction 14.06.2006
14 Jun 2006
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$540
Beschreibung:

MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759). La figure de la terre, déterminée par les observations de Messieurs de Maupertuis, Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier, de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, & de M. l'Abbé Outhier... Accompangnés de M. Celsius, Professeur d'Astronomie à Upsal . Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1738. 8 o (196 x 122 mm). Engraved folding map by Delahaye and 9 folding plates. (Some minor pale spotting.) Contemporary French calf, spine gilt (wear to joints and ends of spine). Provenance : Edith K. Timken (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Along with Voltaire, Maupertuis was one of Newton's earliest proponents in France. Maupertuis, Clairaut, Le Monnier, Camus and the Abbé Outhier traveled to Lapland to prove the Newtonian hypothesis that the earth was flattened at the poles by establishing the length of a degree on the meridian at the North Pole, and comparing it with the length of degrees at other points on the meridian. The results of their investigation, which built on the work of Cassini de Thury, were published in this work. Babson 94; Norman 1458.

Auction archive: Lot number 343
Auction:
Datum:
14 Jun 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
14 June 2006, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759). La figure de la terre, déterminée par les observations de Messieurs de Maupertuis, Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier, de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, & de M. l'Abbé Outhier... Accompangnés de M. Celsius, Professeur d'Astronomie à Upsal . Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1738. 8 o (196 x 122 mm). Engraved folding map by Delahaye and 9 folding plates. (Some minor pale spotting.) Contemporary French calf, spine gilt (wear to joints and ends of spine). Provenance : Edith K. Timken (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Along with Voltaire, Maupertuis was one of Newton's earliest proponents in France. Maupertuis, Clairaut, Le Monnier, Camus and the Abbé Outhier traveled to Lapland to prove the Newtonian hypothesis that the earth was flattened at the poles by establishing the length of a degree on the meridian at the North Pole, and comparing it with the length of degrees at other points on the meridian. The results of their investigation, which built on the work of Cassini de Thury, were published in this work. Babson 94; Norman 1458.

Auction archive: Lot number 343
Auction:
Datum:
14 Jun 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
14 June 2006, New York, Rockefeller Center
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