Elemens D’Astronomie, with Tables Astronomiques du Soleil, de la lune,... 2 volumes.
Paris: L’Imprimerie Royale, 1740. First Edition. Large 4to. 643 pp. and 20 plates. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary full calf with six raised bands; leather spine label with title in one panel and the others are stamped with gilt decorations. The binding shows wear and is cracked at the edges and joints, but presents nicely. The fore-edge of title page has been repaired.
With Tables astronomiques du soleil, de la lune, des planetes, des etoiles fixes, et des satellites de Jupiter et de Saturne; avec l'explication & l'usage e ces memes tables.
Paris: L’Imprimerie Royale, 1740. First Edition. Large 4to. xiv, [6], 120 [text], 222 [tables]. Five folding engraved plates. Bound in contemporary mottled calf, red leather lable with title in gilt on the spine. Ex-libris label of the Biblioteca Riccardi di Modera on the front paste-down.
Cassini was a French astronomer who compiled the first tables of the orbital motions of Saturn’s satellites. He succeeded his father as head of the Paris Observatory in 1712. In 1718 he completed the measurement of the arc of the meridian (longitude line) between Dunkerque and Perpignan. These are his two most important works.
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