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Astronomy.- Maupertuis (Pierre-Louis Moreau de) La Figure de la Terre..., first edition, Paris,
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Astronomy.- Maupertuis (Pierre-Louis Moreau de) La Figure de la Terre..., first edition, 1 engraved map and 9 plates, all folding, printer's device to title, contemporary mottled calf, small tears to lower cover edge, and a little rubbed elsewhere, 8vo, Paris, l'Imprimerie Royale, 1738.*** First edition of this famous work on the applanation of the earth at the poles; Maupertius headed the scientific expedition to Lapland, with the objective to confirm Newton's theory of the flattening of the earth at the poles, with the results proving fatal to the Cassinian hypothesis.
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