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MAIRAN, (JEAN JACQUES d'ORTOUS de).
Traite physique et historique de l’Aurore Boreale. Suite des Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année M. DCCXXXI.
Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1733. 4to. No wrappers. (8),281 pp. and 15 folded engraved plates. A few minor brownspots. Clean and fine.
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First edition of this monumental work on the Northern Lights, being the first general treatise on the subject. Mairan disputes the explanation that the Northern Lights are caused by volcanic exhalations and suggest instead that the cause derives from the sun's atmosphere. (Parkinson, Breakthroughs, 1733). - Darmstaedter, 1733 M.
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2 book(s) with the same title
Traité physique et historique de l'Aurore Boréale. Suite des Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, Année M.DCCXXXI. Seconde Édition, Revûe & augmentée de plusiers E'claircissemens.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1754, in-4°, (12) nn pp + 570 pp + xxii pp (index) + 17 engraved plates with a total of 36 illustrations (complete), bound in contemporary full calf, raised gilt spine, red leather title label on spine, sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers, triple gilt fillet on both covers, fine/good binding but with some restorations at extremeties (headcap, corners), fine crisp interior. Second and best edition of the earliest exhaustive treatise on the aurora borealis, whose height the author estimates as above 100 geographical miles, and which he supposes to be zodiacal light that has come into contact with the atmosphere. (Sotheran N°11308).
Traité physique et historique de l’aurore boreale. Suite des Mémoires de Mathématique et de Physique de l’année M.DCCXXXI (1731). Tirées des registres de l’Académie Royale des Sciences.
1735 [10], 392 p., 1 folded table, 10.5 x 17 cm, contemporary full calf, spine with five raised bands and gilt compartments, marbled endpapers. Edges red. Label missing on spine. Wear on spine and corners. Contemporary paper label with written number on lower end spine, small ex libris (bookplate) on front pastedown, small old library stamp on title-page. Published by Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam.Famous first exhaustive treatise on the aurora borealis. This copy has the complete text and the folded table but lacks the 17 plates!
