[Rarebooks] fa: ADRIEN AUZOUT Robert Hooke CASSINI - SATURN & JUPITER - SIAM India CHINA &c. 1736

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Adrien Auzout, Robert Hooke, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Jacques Cassini, etc.: Lettres de M. Auzout sur les Grandes Lunettes. Voyages de MM. Cassini, en France, en Italie, en Flandres, en Hollande, & en Angleterre. Observations Envoyées des Indes & de la Chine à l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1736. Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, tome VI. Text in French. Thick 4to (26.5 cm) in later half calf and marbled boards; [10], 101, [3], 129, 254, [4] pp; with two title-pages printed in red & black, the second dated 1735; with woodcut decorations and initials, numerous tables, and 10 engraved folding plates and maps (complete).

Contains correspondence of Adrien Auzout, Robert Hooke and Henry Oldenburg touching on the so-called "Hooke-Auzout controversy" sparked by the latter's critique of the lens-making machine described by Hooke in his Micrographia. Also included are accounts of the astronomical and geodesic observations made by the Cassinis, father and son, on the continent and in England, including observations of the pole star. Finally, there are extensive observations made in Siam, India and China by Jesuit mathematician-astronomers, accompanied by numerous  tables and two fine folding maps.

Contents:

	- Lettres de M. Auzout a M. l'Abbe Charles, sur le Ragguaglio di due nuove Osservazioni da Giuseppe Campani, avec des remarques ou il est parle des nouvelles Decouvertes dans Saturne & dans Jupiter, & de plusieurs chose curieuses touchant les grandes Lunettes, &c.
	- Reponse de Monsieur Hook aux Considerations de M. Auzout, contenue dans une lettre excrite a l'auteur des Philosophical Transactions, et quelques lettres ecrites de part & d'autre sur le sujet des grandes Lunettes. 
	- Observations Astronomiques faites en France & en Italie en 1694, 1695, & 1696, par MM. Cassini.
	- Observations Astronomiques faites en Flandre, en Hollande, & en Angleterre en 1697 & 1698, par M. Cassini le Fils.
	- Table de l'Etoile Polaire, pour trouver son passage par le Meridien & la Hauteur du Pole.
	- Observations Physiques & Mathematiques &c. envoyees de Siam a l'Academie Royale des Sciences en 1688, avec les Reflexions des Messieurs de l'Academie, & quelques Notes du P. Gouye.
	- Observations Physiques & Mathematiques &c. envoyees des Indes & de la Chine... in 1692 [etc.].

Binding with modest wear and rubbing to the boards, bumping to the extremities, spine leather darkened and dried; text block with some light toning/dust-soiling to the top edge, three text leaves rather browned; otherwise very clean, crisp and fresh, firmly bound. Curiously, the preliminaries include a second title-page, dated 1735, as well as duplicates of the half-title page and the first page of the prefatory epistle to the fourth work.