Traité Physique et Historique de l'Aurore Boréale...Revûe, & augmentée de plusieurs Éclaircissemens

by Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan

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Woodcut device on title & 17 folding engraved plates. 6 p.l., 570, xxii pp. Large 4to, cont. mottled sheep a few minor scuff marks , spine nicely gilt, contrasting vellum lettering piece on spine. Paris: de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1754. Third edition, greatly enlarged, of the first exhaustive treatise on the aurora borealis. Mairan attributed the phenomenon to an extension of the sun’s atmosphere, which at times enveloped the earth and blended with

• Binding: Leather

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