Polnoe zatmenie solntsa

by Nicolai Lobachevsky

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First edition

8vo. 26 x 16 cm , 51- 83 pp., the issue paginated 216 2 . Bound in original printed wrappers, leaves uncut. Very rare first edition of a treatise on a total solar eclipse by Nicolai Lobachevsky, one of the Russian mathematician’s few works to treat a subject other than the non-Euclidean geometry whose discovery made his reputation. Lobachevsky observed the eclipse of 8 July 1842 recorded in the volume as 26 June, using the old style calendar

• Binding: Wrappers

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