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Condition: 3 crowns missing, 1 joint split over 2 cm, solid hinges, a few dented corners, smooth spine adorned with gilt fillets and the title and volume number label, browning, ex-libris in pen on the title. Complete in 3 volumes.
Complete work of its 46 folded boards.
content: Physical astronomy, magnetism, gravity, gravity, hydrodynamics, static mechanics, elastic fluids, air, water, fire, light, vision. Etc...
Zoologist, naturalist and physicist, Brisson was a friend of Réaumur. He certainly made the greatest ornithologist of his time. He abandoned this subject (following quarrels with Buffon?) to devote himself to physics where he succeeded Nollet at the College of Navarre.
Apart from the defects reported, correct copy. 67488877
