Suggestions of New Theories, to the Scientific

by Girard, ugustus

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First edition · Signed

Mobile, AL : Printed by Dade and Thompson, 1843. First edition. 8vo. 23 pp. With a presentation inscription on the title page, perhaps signed by the author. Girard ?-1873 , a native of Switzerland, was a “watchmaker, inventor, and philosopher, and one of the founders of Mobile, Alabama's Franklin Literary Society Erwin Craighead's 1914 Literary History of Mobile ; Girard contributed to clock making with the invention of an altitude recorder

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