Traité physique et historique de l’aurore boréale

by Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan

$7,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1733. First edition, presentation copy to James Stirling, of this important milestone in the emergence of geophysics, in which Mairan put forwardthe first rational and scientific for the time explanation of the aurora borealis: he proposed that the Northern Lights are caused by the Sun, as the interaction of the atmosphere with zodiacal light at the time, the

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