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In-4^, mm 250x190, pp. (10), 569 (1) XXII, con 17 belle tavole astronomiche e raffiguranti il fenomeno dell'aurora boreale, tutte le tavole più volte ripiegate. Legatura coeva in piena pelle, dorso a scomparti riccamente decorati in oro e titolo su tassello. Carte di guardia marmorizzate e tagli a spruzzo. Piccola mancanza alla cuffia superiore, lievi abrasioni ai piatti, nell'insieme esemplare fresco e ben conservato. Seconda edizione riveduta e aumentata di questa raccolta di memorie uscite per l'Accademia Reale delle Scienze. "Inquiry into the history and physics of the aurora borealis; the chapter on the relation between the aurora and the magnetic declination is of special interest. First edition appeared in 1733". Wheeler Gift I, 382.

Title printed in red & black with printer's device. Illustrated with 17 copperplate engraved folding plates (27 figures) and one folding table. [10], 392 pages. Short 8vo, older cloth-backed marbled boards. Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1735. Light foxing, otherwise a near fine copy. An Amsterdam reprint of the earliest exhaustive treatise on the aurora borealis, two quarto editions of which had previously been published at Paris in 1733 and 1734. Mairan attributed the phenomenon of the aurora borealis to an extension of the sun's atmosphere, which at times, he supposed, enveloped the Earth, and blended with our atmosphere. The zodiacal light was similarly accounted for.

Title printed in red & black with printer's device. Illustrated with 17 copperplate engraved folding plates (27 figures) and one folding table. [10], 392 pages. Short 8vo, older cloth-backed marbled boards. Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1735. Light foxing, otherwise a near fine copy. An Amsterdam reprint of the earliest exhaustive treatise on the aurora borealis, two quarto editions of which had previously been published at Paris in 1733 and 1734. Mairan attributed the phenomenon of the aurora borealis to an extension of the sun's atmosphere, which at times, he supposed, enveloped the Earth, and blended with our atmosphere. The zodiacal light was similarly accounted for.

A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1754, 1 volume in-4 de 260x200x45 mm environ, 6ff. (titre avec vignette, avertissement, table), 570-xxij pages, 1f.blanc, plein veau moucheté fauve, dos à nerfs portant titres et date dorés, orné de caissons à fleurons et motifs dorés, coupes dorées, gardes marbrées, tranches mouchetées de rouge. Complet des 17 planches dépliantes hors-texte. Mouillure dans la marge avec trace d'humidité en fin de volume, rousseurs et pages brunies, 3 coins dénudés dont un avec léger manque de matière, coiffes ébréchées et début de fente sur les mors externes, quelques rayures et craquelures sur le cuir. Deuxième édition considérablement augmentée. Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan, né à Béziers le 26 novembre 1678 et mort à Paris le 20 février 1771, est un mathématicien, astronome et géophysicien français. J.J. Dortus de Mairan s'est opposé à Halley dans l'explication du phénomène : Alors que Halley invoque des fluides magnétiques émanant des pôles, Mairan, de son côté, refuse de faire intervenir l'électricité ou le magnétisme, pour privilégier le rôle de l'atmosphère solaire.

Mairan, Jean-Jacques D'Ortous (1678-1771). Traite Physique et Historique de l'Aurore Borelae. This work is offered as the entire volume of "Histoire de l'Academie Royale des Sciences Annee MDCCXXXI" published in Amsterdam by Pierre Mortier, 1735. (viii), 392pp, 168x100mm (6.75x 4"). 17 folding plates and one small folding table. Very nicely bound in full leather, with decorated six decorated spine panels. Very Good condition. Plates 6-8 and 10-12 and gorgeous representations of the aurorae, depicting it as best as possible as it would appear in nature. The small table (opposite p 278) is a chart of the aurorae borealis from 500 to 1731, listing the appearances by month (and then totaled), recording 229 occurrences. (Evidently in the 1754 edition this number is much increased upon further research to 1441 (through 1751).) [++] Mairan contributed a much shorter paper to the Academy (for 1726 and appearing in 1731) "Description de l'Aurore Boreale du 26 Septembre, et de celle du 19 Octobre, observees au Chateau de Breuillepont" running pp 283-308 in that volume (and illustrated with two lovely engraved folding plates). Conversely, there was also a much-expanded version that appeared in 1754, weighing in 584pp in quarto. To complicate this bibliographic foray a little further there was also a Paris 1733 edition of the same title as the one offered here, though in quarto, with 281pp and 15 plates. [++] "Mairan's "Physical and Historical Treatise on the Aurora Borealis" (1733) contains the first application of geophysical data to an astronomical problem."--Encyclopedia online. [++] "The aurora borealis is a spectacular phenomenon that have been recorded from the Assyrians and Babylonians.till nowadays. However, it is not until 1733 when Mairan (1733) suggested that the aurora could be caused by the solar atmosphere."--Chiara Bertolin et al. "An Early Mid-Latitude Aurora Observed by Rozier (Beausejour, 1780) [++] "Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan should be remembered principally for three things: his work on ice and on the aurora borealis; his lifelong obsession with Newton, despite his not undeserved reputation as a Cartesian; and lastly, his enormous influence on the development and spread of scientific culture in the eighteenth century because of his voluminous correspondence and his prominent position as secretary of the Academy of Sciences, the power center of the scientific establishment."--Complete DSB online. "Because of the fears generated by popular observations of northern lights in France in 1716, Mairan was commissioned by the Royal Academy of Sciences to give a rational explanation of the phenomenon. Unlike Edmond Halley, Mairan ascribed a major role to the Sun in the appearance of the aurora, and denied an electric or magnetic origin. During the 19th century, the cosmic theory of Mairan was discredited, for instance by François Arago and Alexander von Humboldt, who defended the atmospheric origin imagined by Halley. Finally, at the end of the 19th century, when aurora studies benefited from the recent discoveries of new radiations such as cathode rays, Mairan appeared as an important precursor of the new explanation of northern lights and the emergence of geophysics. We defend the idea that it was less the content of his theory than the historicity he gave to the aurora that enabled Mairan to construct this phenomenon as a scientific object, and thus remove it from the realm of marvels."--Stéphane Le Gars, "Dortous de Mairan and the Theory of Aurora Borealis: The Trajectory and Circulation of an Idea from 1733 to 1933" in Revue d histoire des sciences, volume 68, Issue 2, 2015, pages 311 to 333.

Title printed in red & black with printer's device. Illustrated with 17 copperplate engraved folding plates (27 figures) and one folding table. [10], 392 pages. Short 8vo, older cloth-backed marbled boards. Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1735. Light foxing, otherwise a near fine copy. An Amsterdam reprint of the earliest exhaustive treatise on the aurora borealis, two quarto editions of which had previously been published at Paris in 1733 and 1734. Mairan attributed the phenomenon of the aurora borealis to an extension of the sun's atmosphere, which at times, he supposed, enveloped the Earth, and blended with our atmosphere. The zodiacal light was similarly accounted for.

In-4°, (8), 281pp, (2), XV carte di tavola ripiegate incise da Ph. Simonneau, numerose illustrazioni calcografiche. Marca tipografica al frontespizio con stemma della casa reale di Francia con strumenti scientifici. Piccola galleria di tarli al margine inferiore, senza pregiudizio del testo. Legatura in piena pelle coeva, con titolo in oro al dorso su tassello, fregi in oro al dorso e nervature.

In-4 carré ( 260 X 195 mm ) de 4 ffnch.-281 pages, plein veau fauve, dos à nerfs orné de caissons, fleurons et palettes dorés avec pièce de titre de maroquin grenat, double filet doré d'encadrement et encadrement à la Du Seuil sur les plats avec armes couronnées dorées au centre, coupes et coiffes filetées d'or ( dos fort habilement restauré ). PREMIERE EDITION. Avec 15 planches hors-texte repliées. La planche XV courte en marge. Exemplaire aux armes couronnées non identifiées avec la devise "Honi soit qui mal y pense" et ex-libris gravé CASE SHELE avec la même devise. Suite des mémoires de l'Académie royale des Sciences. Bel exemplaire de l'édition originale. Physique Météorologie Sciences

Suite des Memoires de l'Academie royale des sciences, annee M. DCCXXXI.

[12] 570 xxii pp. 17 folding engraved plates; tables. 4to, contemporary full mottled calf; gilt spine with raised bands. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Joints cracked, so that the front board is attached only by the cords; rubbed at corners; internally clean and crisp. Suite des Memoires de l'Academie royale des sciences, annee M.DCCXXXI.

[12]-570-XXII pp., 17 planches Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1754, in-4, [12]-570-XXII pp, 17 planches, basane marbrée, dos à nerfs orné, 17 planches dépliantes gravées en taille-douce par Ph. Simonneau. Deuxième édition parisienne (la première parue en 1733), augmentée de deux planches et d'importants "éclaircissements" de l'auteur. Ce traité comporte une liste très complète des aurores qui furent observées jusqu'en 1751. "The chapter on the relation between the aurora and the magnetic declination is of special interest" (Wheeler Gift). Dortous de Mairan (1678-1771) attribua l'aurore boréale à une extension de l'atmosphère du soleil, alors qu'il s'agit plutôt d'une interaction électrique entre les particules chargées du vent solaire et la haute atmosphère. Lalande p. 454. Poggendorff II-17. Wheeler Gift n° 382. Coiffes et mors restaurés.

4to, pp. [8], 281 + 15 engraved folding plates of aurora examples by Ph Simonneau. Bound in contemporary full calf (lacks the spine label), lacks a couple of small pieces at the extremities of the spine. Gilt coat of arms on the covers. Bookplate of the Societe Litteraire of Geneva on the end paper. Nice wide margins, generally a very good clean copy. DSB 9, p. 33; Honeyman 2112; Poggendorff II, pp. 17-18; Lande p. 397. Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (26 November 1678-20 February 1771) was a French geophysicist, astronomer and most notably, chronobiologist, was born in the town of Béziers on 26 November 1678. Over the course of his life, de Mairan was elected into numerous scientific societies and made key discoveries in a variety of fields including ancient texts and astronomy. His observations and experiments also inspired the beginning of what is now known as the study of biological circadian rhythms. In 1718, de Mairan was inducted into the Académie Royale des Sciences. The Cardinal and the Count of Maurepas selected Mairan to replace Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle as Associate Secretary of the Academie in 1743. De Mairan also served as the Academie's assistant director and later director intermittently between 1721 and 1760. Eventually, de Mairan was appointed editor of the Journal des sçavans, a science periodical, by Chancellor d'Aguesseau. Also, in 1735, de Mairan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1769, a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as well as to the Russian Academy (St. Petersburg) in 1718. De Mairan was also a member of the Royal Societies of London, Edinburgh, and Uppsala and the Institute of Bologna. With Jean Bouillet and Antoine Portalon, he founded his own scientific society in his hometown of Béziers around 1723. Mairan proposes that the aurora were vapors from the sun that entered the Earth's atmosphere. The treatise was published as Suite des Memoirs de l'Academie royal des Sciences for the year 1731.

[12]-570-XXII pp., 17 planches Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1754, in-4, [12]-570-XXII pp, 17 planches, Veau marbré de l'époque, dos à nerfs et fleuronné, pièces de titre rouge et verte, armes dorées au centre des plats [Mailly-Haucourt], 17 planches dépliantes gravées en taille-douce par Ph. Simonneau. Deuxième édition parisienne (la première parue en 1733), augmentée de deux planches et d'importants "éclaircissements" de l'auteur. Ce traité comporte une liste très complète des aurores qui furent observées jusqu'en 1751. "The chapter on the relation between the aurora and the magnetic declination is of special interest" (Wheeler Gift). Dortous de Mairan (1678-1771) attribuait l'aurore boréale à une extension de l'atmosphère du soleil, alors qu'il s'agit plutôt d'une interaction électrique entre les particules chargées du vent solaire et la haute atmosphère. Reliure aux armes de Joseph-Augustin de Mailly, marquis d'Haucourt (1708-1794), lieutenant général du Roussillon et commandant en chef de cette province. OHR, pl. 2044, variante du fer n° 1. Étiquette armoriée contrecollée sur le titre. Très bel exemplaire. La reliure a été habilement restaurée. La planche XVII a été rognée trop court, avec une légère atteinte à l'illustration. Lalande p. 454. Poggendorff II-17. Wheeler Gift n° 382.

4to, pp. [8], 281 + 15 engraved folding plates of aurora examples by Ph Simonneau. Bound in contemporary full calf (lacks the spine label), lacks a couple of small pieces at the extremities of the spine. Gilt coat of arms on the covers. Bookplate of the Societe Litteraire of Geneva on the end paper. Nice wide margins, generally a very good clean copy. DSB 9, p. 33; Honeyman 2112; Poggendorff II, pp. 17-18; Lande p. 397. Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (26 November 1678 - 20 February 1771) was a French geophysicist, astronomer and most notably, chronobiologist, was born in the town of Béziers on 26 November 1678. Over the course of his life, de Mairan was elected into numerous scientific societies and made key discoveries in a variety of fields including ancient texts and astronomy. His observations and experiments also inspired the beginning of what is now known as the study of biological circadian rhythms. In 1718, de Mairan was inducted into the Académie Royale des Sciences.The Cardinal and the Count of Maurepas selected Mairan to replace Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle as Associate Secretary of the Academie in 1743. De Mairan also served as the Academie's assistant director and later director intermittently between 1721 and 1760.Eventually, de Mairan was appointed editor of the Journal des sçavans, a science periodical, by Chancellor d'Aguesseau. Also, in 1735, de Mairan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1769, a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as well as to the Russian Academy (St. Petersburg) in 1718. De Mairan was also a member of the Royal Societies of London, Edinburgh, and Uppsala and the Institute of Bologna. With Jean Bouillet and Antoine Portalon, he founded his own scientific society in his hometown of Béziers around 1723. Mairan proposes that the aurora were vapors from the sun that entered the Earth's atmosphere. The treatise was published as Suite des Memoirs de l'Academie royal des Sciences for the year 1731.

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1754, in-4°, (12) nn pp + 570 pp + xxii pp (index) + 17 engraved plates with a total of 36 illustrations (complete), bound in contemporary full calf, raised gilt spine, red leather title label on spine, sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers, triple gilt fillet on both covers, fine/good binding but with some restorations at extremeties (headcap, corners), fine crisp interior. Second and best edition of the earliest exhaustive treatise on the aurora borealis, whose height the author estimates as above 100 geographical miles, and which he supposes to be zodiacal light that has come into contact with the atmosphere. (Sotheran N°11308).

Suite des Memoires de l'Academie royale des sciences, annee M. DCCXXXI.

4to, pp. [8], 281 + 15 engraved folding plates of aurora examples by Ph Simonneau. Bound in contemporary full calf (lacks the spine label), lacks a couple of small pieces at the extremities of the spine. Gilt coat of arms on the covers. Bookplate of the Societe Litteraire of Geneva on the end paper. Nice wide margins, generally a very good clean copy. DSB 9, p. 33; Honeyman 2112; Poggendorff II, pp. 17-18; Lande p. 397. Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (26 November 1678-20 February 1771) was a French geophysicist, astronomer and most notably, chronobiologist, was born in the town of Béziers on 26 November 1678. Over the course of his life, de Mairan was elected into numerous scientific societies and made key discoveries in a variety of fields including ancient texts and astronomy. His observations and experiments also inspired the beginning of what is now known as the study of biological circadian rhythms. In 1718, de Mairan was inducted into the Académie Royale des Sciences. The Cardinal and the Count of Maurepas selected Mairan to replace Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle as Associate Secretary of the Academie in 1743. De Mairan also served as the Academie's assistant director and later director intermittently between 1721 and 1760. Eventually, de Mairan was appointed editor of the Journal des sçavans, a science periodical, by Chancellor d'Aguesseau. Also, in 1735, de Mairan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1769, a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as well as to the Russian Academy (St. Petersburg) in 1718. De Mairan was also a member of the Royal Societies of London, Edinburgh, and Uppsala and the Institute of Bologna. With Jean Bouillet and Antoine Portalon, he founded his own scientific society in his hometown of Béziers around 1723. Mairan proposes that the aurora were vapors from the sun that entered the Earth's atmosphere. The treatise was published as Suite des Memoirs de l'Academie royal des Sciences for the year 1731.

264 x 209 mm. 4to. [xii], 570, xxii pp. Title-page vignette, headpieces, tailpieces, historiated initials, errata, 17 engraved plates, numerous tables, index. Contemporary tree calf, gilt-tooled margin on covers, elaborately gilt spine, red leather spine label, marbled end-leaves. Fine. CHOICE COPY. Second edition, first issued in 1733, this is a greatly enlarged edition of the first exhaustive treatise on the aurora borealis. Mairan attributed the phenomenon to an extension of the sun's atmosphere, which at times enveloped the earth and blended with our atmosphere. "Inquiry into the history and physics of the aurora borealis; the chapter on the relation between the aurora and the magnetic declination is of special interest." Wheeler Gift 382. There are many references to Newton, Cassini, Euler, and Descartes. The plates contain astronomical maps as well as sketches of the aurora at different times and locations. Jean Mairan, while basically a Cartesian, did incorporate some Newtonian ideas in his theories. The range of his interests, however, extended beyond mathematics and astronomy, encompassing meteorology, biology, and a range of other disciplines. He was a secretary of the Paris Academy of Sciences and belonged to the Royal Societies of London, Edinburgh, and Uppsala, the St. Petersburg Academy, and the Institute of Bologna. See: DSB, IX, pp. 33-34. REFERENCES: Honeyman 2112 (1st ed., 1733); Poggendorf, II, col. 17; Wheeler Gift, 382; Wolf, History of science and technology, 18th cent., p. 305. Harvey, A history of luminescence, pp. 258-259 contains an excellent discussion of the new material in this edition. See: Jean-Michel Faidit, Mairan et les premieres theories de l'aurore boreale, Les Presses du Midi, 2016.

In-4 de 6 ff.n.ch. 570 pp. XXII (table), plein veau fauve de l'époque, dos à nerfs fleurdelisé avec petit chiffre, pièce de titre, triple filet doré en encadrement sur les plats armoriés, tranches rouges. "Exemplaire de présent" Seconde édition revue et augmentée de 21 éclaircissements et de deux planches (Lalande p. 454 - Poggendorff II-17). L'auteur essaye d'expliquer ce phénomène magnétique par des recherches atmosphériques, agrémentées par des descriptions ingénieuses, avec une liste des aurores observées jusqu"en 1751 (DSB IX, p. 33). Ouvrage orné de 17 planches, certaines repliées, donnant 36 figures. Wheeler Gift cat. 382 : "The chapter on the relation between the aurora and the magnetic declination is of special interest" Bel exemplaire aux armes de LOUIS XV (O. H. R., 2495, fer n°2).

Woodcut device on title & 17 folding engraved plates. 6 p.l., 570, xxii pp. Large 4to, cont. mottled sheep (a few minor scuff marks), spine nicely gilt, contrasting vellum lettering piece on spine. Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1754. Third edition, greatly enlarged, of the first exhaustive treatise on the aurora borealis. Mairan attributed the phenomenon to an extension of the sun's atmosphere, which at times enveloped the earth and blended with our atmosphere. "Inquiry into the history and physics of the aurora borealis; the chapter on the relation between the aurora and the magnetic declination is of special interest."-Wheeler Gift Cat. 382. There are many references to Descartes, Newton, Cassini, and Euler. Mairan (1678-1771), while basically a Cartesian, did incorporate some Newtonian ideas in his theories. He was secretary of the Paris Academy of Sciences and belonged to the Royal Societies of London, Edinburgh, and Uppsala, the St. Petersburg Academy, and the Institute of Bologna. Unusually fine copy. Bookplate of Pierre Sciclounoff, the prominent Geneva lawyer and book collector. ? D.S.B., IX, pp. 33-34. See E. Newton Harvey's A History of Luminescence, pp. 258-59 for an excellent discussion.