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FONTENELLE, BERNARD LE BOVIER DE. Entretiens sur la Pluralité des Mondes. Folding engraved plate of the solar system. [2], 481, [3], xvii pages, including bookseller's catalogue at end. 12mo, contemporary sheep gilt. Paris: Michel Brunet, 1724
The author's most famous and frequently reprinted and translated book, originally published in 1686, a popular account of the systems of Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Tycho Brahe in dialogue form, " . . . the first example in French of a learned work placed within the reach of an educated but nonspecialized public"--DSB V, 59. Crowe, pages 18-21.<
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