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Bray, WBiblio.com

Sketch of a Tour into Derbyshire and Yorkshire: Including Part of Buckingham Warwick Leicester Nottingham Northampton Bedford and Hertford-Shires.

ACADEMIE Royale des SciencesBiblio.com

Histoire de l' Academie Royale des Sciences. Annee M. DCCXXI. Avec le memoires de mathematique & de physique pour la meme annee. Tires des registres de cette academie.

1723000459Paris: de l'imprimerie Royale 1723. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 4to. pp. 6 108 324. Engraved frontispiece and 16 fold-out plates 3 of which are maps 2 maps of the Caspian Sea region and 1 map showing the retreat of the Greek Ten-Thousand from their expedition against Persia. Other plates contain botanical geometrical and mechanical illustrations. Occasional diagrams are also printed with the text. Re-backed preserving original mottled calf boards leather is well-worn rubbed and crackling but treated to prevent further deterioration; board edges are restored. Some of the gilt outer border on front and rear boards is restored. Interior is generally clean with some scattered light marginal foxing. Several pages show moderate toning / foxing. Occasional minor marginal chips; tiny marginal tear on frontis neatly sealed; 50 mm tear carefully sealed on one of the Caspian map plates. One plate edge overlaps the text block. Provenance: Appears to be the gilt coat of arms of John 2nd Duke of Montagu on both the front and the rear covers. The arms incorporate those of his wife Lady Mary Churchill daughter of Sir John Churchill the 1st Duke of Marlborough. Montague was a member of the Royal Society and Knight of the Garter. Photos on request. Library ticket on verso of front end paper. Annual publication of the French Academie Royale des Sciences for the year 1721. Includes articles on physics anatomy chemistry botany algebra geometry astronomy geography and mechanics by leading scientists of the time i.e. Jean Jacques Mairan Jacques Cassini Pierre Varignon Jacques Eugene de Louville Rene Antoine Reaumur Sebastien Vaillant and others. de l'imprimerie Royale hardcover

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MAUPERTUIS, PIERRE LOUIS - CONFIRMING NEWTON'S DYNAMIC AND THE FLATTENING OF THE EARTHBiblio.com

La Figure de la Terre determinée. Par Messieurs de L'Academie Royale des Sciences qui ont mesuré le Degré du Méridien au Cercle Polaire. Discours lu dans l'Assemblée publique du 13 Novembre 1737.

174051275Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1740. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1737". Pp. 389-469 1 engraved map from Torneå to Kittis and 5 folded engraved plates. First printing of the official report from the French Academy of the geodetic expedition to Lapland in order to settle the conflict between Earth-elangators and Earth-flatteners between the French and the British. "Newton had calculated from the Earth's rotational force at the Equator that its equatoeial diameter should exceed its polar diameter by 0.44 per cent or 27 km 17 miles; similar in Jupiter rotating more than twice as fast the disparity of the diameters was shown to be even greater. In France however tha Cassinis from geodetic measurements stretching along the meridian at Paris from the Channel to the Pyrennees came to exactly the opposite conclusion - that the polar diameter of the Earth was the greater. After Maupertuis had examined this imcompatibility in 1733 the Academy of Sciences decided that it should be settled by measure of a degree of latitude taken in two widely separated parts of the globe. Maupertuis with Clairaut took a party to the Golf ofBothnia. La Condamine with Bouguer took another to Peru. maupertuis departed in May 1736 and was absent for a year only in December 1737 was he able to announce the result that in accordance with Newton's dynamical theory the degreee in the far north was loner than that in Paris. More years elepsed before the degreee in Peru was found to be shorter. As Voltaire put in a wrily witty but un-Baconian couplet addresseed to Maupertuis:"In tedious deserts you were forced to roam. To find the truth that Newton knew at home." Rupert Hall "Revolution in Science 1500-1750 pp.351-52.Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1736-37 E. unknown

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Maillet, Benoit deBiblio.com

EVOLUTIONARY THEORY 1748. Telliamed ou entretiens d'un philosophe indien avec un missionnaire françois sur la diminution de la Mer la formation de la Terre l'origine de l'homme etc. Mis en ordre par J.A.Guers

17481641Amsterdam: Chez l'honore et fils libraires 1748. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2 vols. in one. 8vo. I: 10 cxix 7 208 pp. 1 f. "Errata" for Tom. 1. II: 2 231 pp. 1 f. "Addition" 1 f. "Errata" for Tom 1 sic. First title page with unobtrusive paper defect on lower margin not affecting text; this copy is lacking half-title and Errata leaf for Tom. 2. Very attractive 19th-century French red glazed boards red morocco spine lettered in gilt directly two insignificant worm-holes on lower hinge leading nowhere; trifle wear to binding extremities. Completely unsophisticated. First printing of "Telliamed" in every way a remarkable book. Disguised as an Oriental fantasy it contains perhaps the earliest appearance of one of the most important of all evolution speculations namely the so-called ultra-neptunian theory: that the entire Earth was and is a marine deposit and that all life on land originated from creatures of the sea. Maillet hypothesized that the earth was once entirely covered with water and that the water gradually evaporated into space causing land masses to appear. Maillet also created an ingenious methodology to calculate the age of the Earth: he concluded that the Earth is 2 billion years old evolutionists today consider this figure to be more like 4.5 billion. It is known that Buffon Lamark Cuvier and Darwin read this book and that they were very much influenced by Maillet's unorthodox "heretical" views. Well aware that such an immense figure would incur the wrath of the Church de Maillet presented his conclusions in the guise of a dialogue between a French missionary and an Eastern mystic named Telliamed an anagram for the author's last name i.e. de Maillet spelled backwards. The manuscript remained unpublished until a decade after Maillet's death. In order to present his radical conclusions in the guise of an Oriental tale Maillet interspersed monsters and mythological creatures into his text. Overtly anti-Christian "Telliamed" dismisses the Flood of the Old Testament as a fable because rainfall that lasted forty days would have been insignificant to submerge entire mountains. Maillet asserted that the Earth's history could not be read from the Bible but through the rocks themselves. ¶ With uncanny prescience Maillet describes how species have overlapping physical characteristics that suggested a common life origin namely the sea. Through a Oriental mystic we are told that: "The little Wings had under their Belly and which like their Fins helped them to walk in the Sea became Feet and served them to walk on Land." ¶ REFERENCES: Caillet No. 7009. Versins Utopie p. 640. LITERATURE: "Charles Darwin et ses Precurseurs francais Paris 1870 Chapter 1: "the moss-grown fragments from the ruins of another world." See also Albert Carozzi "De Maillet's 'Telliamed' 1748: An Ultra-Neptunian Theory of the Earth" in: Toward a History of Geology; Proceedings of the New Hampshire Inter-Disciplinary Conference on the History of Geology Sept. 7-12 1967. Mary Efrosini Gregory "Evolutionism in Eighteenth-century French Thought" Chapter 1. See also the article on Maillet in DSB IX pp. 26 et seq: "Maillet's ideas unquestionably influenced many leading naturalists for almost a century notably Buffon and Cuvier. Chez l'honore et fils, libraires hardcover

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Sketch of a Tour into Derbyshire and Yorkshire: Including Part of Buckingham Warwick Leicester Nottingham Northampton Bedford and Hertford-Shires.

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Sketch of a Tour into Derbyshire and Yorkshire: Including Part of Buckingham Warwick Leicester Nottingham Northampton Bedford and Hertford-Shires.

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Histoire de l' Academie Royale des Sciences. Annee M. DCCXXI. Avec le memoires de mathematique & de physique pour la meme annee. Tires des registres de cette academie.

Histoire du mont Vésuve avec l'explication des phénomènes qui ont coutume d'accompagner les embrasements de cette montagne. Le tout traduit de l'italien de l'Académie des sciences de Naples

La Figure de la Terre determinée. Par Messieurs de L'Academie Royale des Sciences qui ont mesuré le Degré du Méridien au Cercle Polaire. Discours lu dans l'Assemblée publique du 13 Novembre 1737.

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EVOLUTIONARY THEORY 1748. Telliamed ou entretiens d'un philosophe indien avec un missionnaire françois sur la diminution de la Mer la formation de la Terre l'origine de l'homme etc. Mis en ordre par J.A.Guers

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