JF Ptak Science Books
Histoire de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, Annee MDDCXX, avec les Memoires de Mathematique et de Physique pour la meme Annee, Tirez des Registres de cette Academie. Amsterdam, Pierre de Coup, 1724. Two volumes, volume I: (viii), 175, 354pp, plates 1-8; volume II pp 357-604, plates 9-15. 16.5x9.5cm. Very nicely bound in full leather, with decorated six decorated spine panels.
The two volume work is in two sections with three working title pages: Histoire de l'Academie Royale des Sciences... (pp 1-175) followed by Memoires de Mathematique et de Physique tirez des registres de l'Academie Royale des Sciences...(pp 1-354) in volume 1; and in volume II Suite des Memoires de Mathematique et de Phyqiue tirez des registres de l'Academie Royale des Sciences (pp 357-604). Very Good condition. $425
The volumes contain the following work of interest:
Giacomo Maraldi, “Observations sur les Taches du Mars”, (with a wonderful engraved plate), pp 186-199; and with “Observations sur la quantite de Pluye, sur le Thermometre sur le Barometre” pp 1-9; and with “Observation d'une Aurore Boreale”, pp 115-121. Giacomo Filippo Maraldi (665 –1729) was a French-Italian astronomer and mathematician and nephew of Giovanni Cassini, working primarily at the Paris Observatory (1687 – 1718). “From 1700 until 1718 he worked on a catalog of fixed stars, and from 1672 until 1719 he studied Mars extensively. His most famous astronomical discovery was that the ice caps on Mars are not exactly on the rotational poles of that body. He also recognized (in May 1724) that the corona visible during a solar eclipse belongs to the Sun not to the Moon...”--Wiki
Sebastian Vaillant, “Suite des Corymbiferes ou de la Seconde Classe des Plantesa Fleurs Composees”, pp 357-439, a long and evidently significant work especially in regards to Asters;
Antoine de Jussieu (1686-1750) “Histoire du Cachou”, pp 440-449;
Giovanni Cassini, “Observation de l'Eclipse, par la Lune...” pp 182-186 and another;
Jean Mery (1645-1722, anatomist, doctor, and formerly in charge of the Invalides from 1683-1707), “Observations faites sur un Foetus humaine monstrueux” , pp 9-18; and “Description d'une Main devenue monstreuse par accident”, pp 562-589 ("Most of Méry’s researches were comparative-anatomical and pathological. The pathological researches were mostly descriptive in character and covered a wide range of situations, although most of them were concerned with human developmental malformations. Of greater interest are his researches in comparative anatomy, including his physiological investigations."--DSB)
Louville, “Constrution & Theorie des Tables du Soleil”, pp 44-103;
Rene Antoine de Reamur (1683-1757), “Remarques sur les Coquilles Fossilles de Qualques Cantons de la Touraine...”, pp 519-542, a work on fossil shells by the multiply-gifted aristocrat (See Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol 11.)
and others, including Lemery deLagny and Geoffroy le Cadet.
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