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Petit, P.

Starting price
€ 360
Auction dateClassic
18.02.2021 10:00UTC +02:00
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Auktionshaus Kiefer
Event location
Germany, Pforzheim
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ID 488530
Lot 1183 | Petit, P.
Petit, P. Von Bedeutung der Cometen und des Gestirns, auß einem Sendschreiben ... Von der Natur der Cometen ... Drsdn. u. Zittau, J.C. Mieth 1681. Mit gestempelt Front. von J. Mausfeldt. 38 nn. Bl. Ausgebunden.
VD17 14:073191Q. Bircher 14440. Vgl. Poggendorff II, 414 f. Jöcher III, 1427. Brüning 1467. - Der Mathematiker Pierre Petit (1598-1667), Oberaufseher über die französischen Festungen und Häfen, war ein enger Freund Descartes. Die Schrift war zur Beruhigung Ludwigs XIV. verfasst, da auffallende Himmelserscheinungen meist auf gekrönte Häupter bezogen wurden und Kometen als böses Omen galten. - Erste dt. Ausgabe der "Dissertation sur la nature des cometes" von 1665 (Brüning). "His Dissertation ... was praised in England and on the Continent for the accuracy and completeness of its observations and discussions" (DSB X, 546). - Das Front. zeigt Gelehrte bei der Himmelsbeobachtung. - Tit. mit kl. Rd.-Ausschnitt (ohne Textverlust). Gebräunt.
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