This paper is an essay by Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan, Di - Lot 233

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This paper is an essay by Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan, Di - Lot 233
This paper is an essay by Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan, Dissertation on Ice, or Physical Explanation of the Formation of Ice, & its Various Phenomena. By M. Dortous de Mairan, one of the Forty of the Académie Françoise, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, &c. In Paris, from the Imprimerie Royale, 1749. In-12 of XXIX-(10)-384-XX pp., brown calf, spine embellished with nerves, title piece in havana morocco (contemporary binding). New edition of the treatise on ice by Dortous de Mairan, "the best" according to Michaud (XXVI, 291), revised by the author and augmented by several important observations. This dissertation was crowned by the Academy of Bordeaux in 1716, the year of its first publication. It was also printed in 1730, in a work entitled Les Vertus médicinales de l'eau commune. Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan, physicist, mathematician and literary scholar (1678-1771), was a member of the Academy of Sciences from 1718 and of the French Academy in 1743; he was linked with Voltaire who consulted him and professed feelings of esteem for him that never wavered. Unsigned frontispiece and five bound folding plates at the end of the work. Bits partially split, worn corners, some freckles. Copy of Etienne-François Dutour (1711-1784) with his ex-libris, theologian and physicist born in Riom in Auvergne, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences from 1746 to 1784.
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