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[GADROYS], Le Systeme du Monde, 1675 . Exemplaire de Chasles

Photo [GADROYS, Claude]. 

[GADROYS, Claude]. 

Le Systeme du Monde, selon les trois Hypotheses, ou conformement aux loix de la Mechanique l'on explique dans la supposition du mouvement de la Terre. 

Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1675.

12mo (157x91 mm), (36)-457-(1) pages.  binding : Contemporary full calf, gilt spine in six compartments. 

Photo [GADROYS, Claude]. 

First edition.
Book in which are presented the cosmologies of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Tycho Brahe enlightened by the theories of Descartes.

references: Elena Milani [Cartesian manuals : Rohault, Régis and Gadroys, : "Gadroys resolves his choice of the astronomical hypotheses in favour of the Copernican one as the easiest and the most compatible with both natural causes and the Cartesian cosmology"}.

provenance: Bookplate from Michel Chasles, famous french mathematician. Unidentified stamps.

Price : 750 €

Photo [GADROYS, Claude]. 
Photo [GADROYS, Claude]. 
Photo [GADROYS, Claude]. 
Photo [GADROYS, Claude]. 
Photo [GADROYS, Claude]. 
Photo [GADROYS, Claude]. 
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