A Paris, Chez H.L. Guerin & L. F. Delatour, M. DCC. LVII., (1757), in-4to, 2 ff. (faux-titre & titre imprimé en rouge et noir) + XXX + 520 pages + 15 planches gravées dépliantes hors-texte, ill. de qqs en-tête, de chapitre et culs-de-lampe gravées, pt cachet ovale sur titre (annulé), reliure de l'époque en plein veau, dos à cinq nerf richement orné or, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, tranches rouges. Bel exemplaire.
Par Pierre Bouguer, professeur de d’hydrographie & hydrographe du Roy au port du Croisic.First and unique edition of this high quality scientific work. Complete with 15 engraved plates. Very fine copy in contemporary full calf, spine richly gilt.The son of Jean Bouguer, royal professor of hydrography, Pierre Bouguer was a prodigy who at the age of fifteen, upon the death of his father, applied for and obtained the professorship. He quickly became the leading French theoretical authority on all things nautical. In 1731 Pierre Bouguer was made an associate geometrician of the Académie Royale, and in 1735 he became a full Academician. In the same year he was sent, with Charles Marie de La Condamine, Louis Godin, and Joseph de Jussieu, on the celebrated expedition to Peru that was to measure an arc of the meridian near the equator. Poggendorff I/254-255; Dictionary of Scientific Biography II/343-344; Quérard I/448; Brunet TM 8292, cf. III/729. Image disp.
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