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LAPLACE, PIERRE-SIMON, Marquis de. Exposition du Système du Monde. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Laplace. viii, 405, [1] pages, including half-title. 4to, contemporary sheep, flat spine attractively gilt, chipped at top, missing triangular piece at bottom, front joint starting. Paris: Courcier, 1808
Third edition, revised and enlarged, 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.<
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