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BIOT, JEAN-BAPTISTE.
Traité Élémentaire d’Astronomie Physique . . .
Seconde Édition.
41 folding engraved plates; 10 folding leaves of tables. xx, 455, [1]; xi,
[1], 563, [1]; xvi, 243, [1], 215, [1], 192, 58 pages, including half-titles. 3 volumes. 8vo,
201x127 mm, contemporary calf gilt, spines worn; occasional browning of text, plates
clean. Stamps of the Bibliothèque Mathématique de l’Université de Genève on titles and
elsewhere in text.
Paris: Klostermann, 1810-11
[300/500]
“Biot’s achievements in optics, geodesy, and geophysics improved the scientific grounding of
astronomy. He proved the extraterrestrial origin of the meteorites and helped to unify the precise
mathematics with the experimental techniques of physics”—BEA, page 125. Houzeau &
Lancaster 9271.
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BECQUEREL, HENRI.
Recherches sur une Propriété Nouvelle de la
Matière: Activité Radiante Spontanée ou Radioactivité de la Matière.
13 photo-
graphic plates. 4to, 282x226 mm, original wrappers, spine cracked, some stains on front
cover; minor marginal foxing on plate 4, contents otherwise clean; uncut and unopened;
1
/
4
morocco slipcase.
Paris, 1903
[400/600]
FIRST EDITION
.
Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences de l’Institut de France, Volume 46. An
extended account of Becquerel’s investigations into radioactivity, for which he shared the 1903
Nobel Prize in physics with Pierre and Marie Curie. DSB I, 560; Norman 158; Printing
and the Mind of Man 393.
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BILLY, JACQUES DE, S.J.
Tabulae
Lodoicaeae; seu, Universa eclipseon
doctrina tabulis, praeceptis ac demon-
strationibus explicata.
[16], 186, [2]
pages. 4to, 224x169 mm, 19th-century
1
/
4
calf, rebacked; marginal dampstaining
through most of volume, scattered foxing,
upper outer corner of title and next 2
leaves torn and restored affecting a few
letters.
Dijon: Pierre Palliot, 1656
[500/750]
FIRST EDITION
of a collection of eclipse, solar,
and lunar tables dedicated to Louis XIV. BEA,
page 125; DSB II, 131; Houzeau &
Lancaster 12051.
