‎GREGORY (D.)‎
‎Astronomiae physicae & geometricae elementa; Secunda editio revisa & correcta, accesserunt praefatio editoris ; cometographia halleiana in modum appendicis ; brevis ad calcem horologiorum sciotericorum tractatus & duplex index, primus sectionum & propositionum, alter rerum & verborum copiosus -- 2 VOLUMES (COMPLETE SET)‎

‎Genevae, Bousquet, 1726, 2 VOLUMES IN 4 reliés en demi-basane de l'époque, dos ornés de filets dorés (reliures de l'époque), (habiles restaurations aux coiffes, petit accroc à la partie inférieur du dos au tome 1), 1 FRONTISPICE, (10), 96pp., 427pp. pour le tome 1 ; (1) pp. 429/751, 74pp., (1), 1 TABLEAU DEPLIANT, 48 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES pour le tome 2‎

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‎---- Deuxième édition AUGMENTEE et CORRIGEE ---- "This finely printed edition is specially valuable for CONTAINING THE FIRST REPRINT OF THE NOW VERY RARE ASTRONOMIAE COMETICAE SYNOPSIS BY Edmund HALLEY". (Sotheran I N° 1653) ---- "It is the first text book composed on gravitational principles and remodelling astronomy in conformity with physical theory. Newton thougth highly of it, and communicated for insertion in it his Lunar theory, long the guide of practical astronomers in determining the moon's motions. The discussion in the preface, in which the doctrine of gravitation was brought into credit on the score of its antiquity, likewise emanated from Newton". (DNB) ---- DSB V pp. 520/522 - Honeyman N° 1552**2456/L1‎