Oeuvres de Mr. de Maupertuis. ...4 vols.

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Lyon: Jean-Marie Bruyset, 1756. 8vo. Orig. full mottled calf. Spines extra gilt, with raised bands, and morocco titling-label. Marbled end-papers. With engrv. portrait in Vol. I, and text-figs. Title-pages printed in red/black ink. Fine set, complete with all half-titles. NOTE: Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) was a French mathematician and astronomer, headed expedition sent by Louis XV into Laplan to measure a degree of longitude. He also supported the Newtonian theory.