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BIOT (Jean-Baptiste) and Jacques ARAGO. Recueil d'Observatio - Lot 257
BIOT (Jean-Baptiste) and Jacques ARAGO. Recueil d'Observations géodésiques, astronomiques et physiques, exécutées par ordre du Bureau des longitudes de France [...] pour déterminer la variation de la pesanteur et des degrés terrestres sur le prolongement du Méridien de Paris. Paris, Veuve Courcier, 1821. In-4, violet half-chagrin, spine decorated with a repeated gilt fleuron, speckled edges (Mid-19th century binding).
First edition, with 2 fold-out plates.
The work contains the results of measurements made by physicist and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) and Jacques Arago (1790-1855), particularly in Spain and the Shetland Islands. This rare volume follows the famous work on meridian measurement by Méchain and Delambre, which laid the foundations for our current metric system, published in 3 volumes in 1806-1810 under the title Base du système métrique décimal...
Well-bound copy. Some foxing.
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