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[PLUCHE, NOEL-ANTOINE.] Histoire du Ciel. Engraved frontispiece and 24 plates of pagan deities and mythological subjects (lightly dampstained in upper outer corners). 2 volumes. 12mo, contemporary sheep, worn, spines imperfect. The Hague: Jean Neaulme, 1744
Fourth edition of a work first published in 1739. "In the Histoire Pluche restated his opposition to the cosmologies proposed by the physicists--which he termed ''romans philosophiques''--and sought to display the excellence of the physics of Moses, which supposedly conforms to the teachings of both ''history and experimental physics'' "--DSB XI, 44.
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