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Chilmead on the globes.
8
vo.
A Learned Treatise of Globes: Both Coelestiall and Terrestriall: with their several uses. Written first in Latine, by Mr Robert Hues: and by him so Published. Afterward Illustrated with Notes by Io. Isa Pontanus. And now lastly made English, for the benefit of the Vnlearned. By John Chilmead Mr A. of Christ-Church in Oxon.
The author of this book is entered in the Index of the Library of Congress 1815 Catalogue, with reference to this chapter,
but there is no entry in the chapter itself. The book was probably not sold to Congress.
The first edition of this translation was printed in 1638, the second in 1639, and the third in 1659.
STC 13907, 13908, H3298.
The translator is named John Chilmead in all these editions. The account of Edmund Chilmead (1610-1654, English miscellaneous writer) in the Dictionary of National Biography closes with the statement that this translation "is usually attributed to Edmund Chilmead with apparent correctness."
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Figura telluris de Maupertuis.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 115, no. 8, as above.
MAUPERTUIS,
Pierre Louis Moreau de.
Figvra tellvris determinata per observationes . . . de Maupertuis, Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier . . . et domini abbatis Outhier . . . comitanta domino Celsio . . . factas . . . ad circvlvm
polarem avtore DN. de Maupertuis e cvivs idomate
gall. in
latinvm trastvlit notisqve proœmialibvs avxit Alarcvs Zeller . . .
Lipsiæ: literatis
Breitkopfianis,
1742.
First Edition in
Latin. 2 vol. 12mo. No copy was seen for collation. 102 leaves, engraved frontispiece and 9 folded plates.
This edition not in Lalande.
Not in Houzeau.
Sotheran 11635.
A copy was ordered by Jefferson, on June 29, 1789, when he was in Paris, from
Armand Koenig, of Strasburg, one of a number of books selected by Jefferson from Koenig’s catalogue.
The book was sent, and included in a bill from Koenig dated July 17, price £
2.0.0. It is entered without price by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue.
Jefferson mentioned the theories of Maupertuis in a letter to Rev. J. Madison, dated from Paris, August 13, 1787: “
. . . I think your conjecture that the periodical variation of light in certain fixed stars proceeds from Maculae is more
probable than that of Maupertuis who supposes those bodies may be flat, & more probable also than that which supposes the
star to have an orbit of revolution so large as to vary sensibly it’s degree of light. the latter is rendered more difficult
of belief from the shortness of the period of variation . . .
”
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, 1698-1759, French mathematician and astronomer, was a member of the Académie des Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society;
he later became a member of almost all the scientific societies of Europe. In 1736 at the instigation of Louis XV he headed
an expedition to Lapland to measure the length of a degree of the meridian. In 1746 he became President of the Académie royalé
[
sic
--
Ed.
] des Sciences et Belles-Lettres in Berlin. This book was first printed in French in 1738.
Under the year 1732 Lalande states:
Cette année, qui est celle de ma naissance, est remarquable pour l’astronomie. Maupertuis commençait à établir le newtonianisme
en France . . .
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la Figure de la terre par Bouguer.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 116, no. 32, as above.
BOUGUER,
Pierre.
La Figure de la Terre, déterminée par les observations de Messieurs Bouguer, & de La Condamine, de l’Académie Royale des Sçiences, envoyés par ordre du Roy au Pérou, pour observer aux environs de l’Equateur.
Avec une Relation abregée de ce Voyage, qui contient la description du Pays dans lequel les opérations ont été faites. Par
M. Bouguer.
A
Paris, Quay des Augustins: chez
Charles-Antoine Jombert,
m. dcc. xlix.
[1749.]
QB291 .B7
