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LAPLACE, PIERRE-SIMON, Marquis de. Exposition du Système du Monde. viii, 351 pages, including half-title. 4to, contemporary 1/2 calf, spine varnished, ends chipped, joints cracked, cords intact; scattered foxing. Contemporary owner's calligraphic quotation from book 5 of Lucretius on verso of front free endpaper. Paris: J.-B.-M. Duprat, An VII [1799]
Second edition of a general treatise on astronomy first published in 1796, "one of the most successful popularizations of science ever composed" (DSB), elaborating Laplace's "nebular hypothesis" of the origin and formation of the solar system. DSB XV, 342-45; Houzeau & Lancaster 8940.
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