Voyage dans les Mers de l'Inde: fait par ordre du Roi, a l'occasion du passage de Venus sur le disque du soleil le 6 juin 1761, & le 3 du meme mois 1769
Voyage dans les Mers de l'Inde: fait par ordre du Roi, a l'occasion du passage de Venus sur le disque du soleil le 6 juin 1761, & le 3 du meme mois 1769
Voyage dans les Mers de l'Inde: fait par ordre du Roi, a l'occasion du passage de Venus sur le disque du soleil le 6 juin 1761, & le 3 du meme mois 1769

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Voyage dans les Mers de l'Inde: fait par ordre du Roi, a l'occasion du passage de Venus sur le disque du soleil le 6 juin 1761, & le 3 du meme mois 1769

LE GENTIL, Guillaume

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This is the account of an astronomer's attempts to observe the transit of Venus between the Earth and the sun which happens twice eight years apart, then not again for a hundred years. He was unable to take measurements on the first date because he was aboard ship. Poor weather prevented his efforts on the second date and the poor fellow nearly went mad.

Publication Info

  • Publisher: Libraires Associes
  • Edition: n/a
  • Date Published: 1780
  • Place Published: En Suisse
  • ISBN: n/a

Details

  • Condition: Very Good
  • Signed: No
  • Dust Jacket: No
  • Jacket Condition: n/a
  • Details:
    2 vols.: 344; 364 p. 20 cm. 3 fine prints at the end of each volume, the final one in vol. 2 being a pull-out rendering of the ruins at Pondichery. Full leather volumes with gilt-impressed name "Hon. A. Cole" on front covers. Corners bumped. spine head of vol. 1 a bit chipped. Front hinge of vol. 1 and back hinge of vol. 2 are partly cracked. Etched bookplate on front pastedown of each volume.

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