One-page autograph note signed to Adolphe Quetelet 1799-1874, Belgian physicist, statistician, and astronomer of the Brussels Royal Observatory

by Edouard Roche

$100 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

n.p. n.d. 4to, trimmed and measuring 21 x 21.5mm., approx. 100 words, stains from previous mount on verso, else a very good example; in French. Offering apologies on behalf of a Dr. Walker for not having sent Vol. 6 of an unnamed work, and saying that he has been preoccupied with scientific questions. Roche 1820-1883 was a French mathematician, specialist in celestial mechanics, geophysics, and meteorology; corresponding member of the Academie des Sciences, who proposed the first earth

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