1100. [Astronomy]

HASSENFRATZ, Jean-Henri

Cours de physique céleste, ou Leçons sur l'exposition du système du monde, données à l'école polytechnique, en l'an dix.

Paris, Librarie Économique, Guilleminet, 1803

8vo: xii-379 pp.; 29 pl. (some browning).

Contemp. half sheep with corners, marbled paper on covers, spine with 5 raised bands (spine sl. rubbed and def. at head and upper joint).

First edition by Hassenfratz (1755-1827), a French chemist, physics professor, mine inspector, and participant in the French Revolution. Illustrated with 29 engr. folding plates after Hassenfratz by Aboilard and others of which 3 hand-coloured. Hassenfratz studied mining before becoming a deputy inspector of mines. After working in Lavoisier's laboratory he taught physics at the "École des Mines" from 1786-8, and, after the Revolution (in which he was active as a militant democrat and member of the Jacobin Club), physics at the "École Polytechnique" until 1815.
Ref. Poggendorff I:1029. - Houzeau & Lancaster 8951. - BnF. - COPAC.
Prov. Name on French title. - Initials on title.
Joined: Henrion, Didier - Usage du compas de proportion. Paris, Fleury Bourriquant at the expenses of the author, 1624. 8vo: [8]-90-[6] pp. (double-page pl. missing, damp stain on lower half throughout). Contemp. limp vellum (corner lower cover missing), flat spine. Second edition (1st 1618) by the French mathematician D. Henrion (d. 1632). Ill. with a woodcut device on title and several woodcut initials, headpieces, diagrams and figures in-text. Despite the title, the instrument described in modern terminology is correctly named a "sector" credited to Galilei, though claimed by Henrion as an invention of his own. The instrument was primarily used for surveying. Ref. Cp. Poggendorff I:1068-1069 (ed. 1631, states "Denis" Henrion). - BnF (states "Didier" Henrion). - COPAC (both Denis and Didier). - USTC 6021173. Prov. Van Landsbergh (ms. entry on title). - Name on front pastedown. (2 vol.)

€ 150 / 200

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