BIOT (J.B.) - Traité élémentaire ...

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‎BIOT (J.B.)‎

‎Traité élémentaire d'astronomie physique‎

‎P., Bernard, 1805, 2 volume in 8 reliés en demi-basan de l'époque, dos richement orné de fers et filets dorés, étiquettes rouges, T.1 : 28pp., (1), 330pp., 11 PLANCHES dépliantes, T.2 : (2), pp. 331/582, 5 PLANCHES dépliantes‎

‎EDITION ORIGINALE - BEL EXEMPLAIRE - RARE. "Under the patronage of Laplace, Biot was given the post of assistant astronomer at the Bureau des Longitudes. When the University of France was established by Napoleon in 1808, Biot was appointed professor of astronomy at the Paris Faculté des Sciences... His Traité élémentaire d'astronomie physique was the source from which Sir George Airy, later British astronomer royal, learned his basic astronomy ; and he claimed that he had acquired his interest in the subject through Biot's work...". (DSB II)‎