[MAUPERTUIS (Pierre Louis MOREAU DE)].

[MAUPERTUIS (Pierre Louis MOREAU DE)]. Venus Physique. N.p., 1745. Small 12mo (79 x 137 mm), brown half-calf, ribbed spine decorated with blind-stamped fillets (late 19th-century binding). [VIII] + 194 pp. FIRST EDITION. A philosopher, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and naturalist (1698–1759), Maupertuis defended Newton’s theories in France against Cartesianism. Excerpts from the table of contents: “AMERICA has no white inhabitants […],” “BORNEO […] inhabited by men with

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