LECONS SUR L'ART D'OBSERVER, relativement aux sciences physiques et medicales, sous forme de prelecons a des cours sur les sciences physiques et chimiques, prononcees en faveur de M.(rs) les etudians en medecine, le 5 Avril 1807 [LESSONS ON THE ART OF OBSERVATION, relating to the physical and medical sciences, in the form of lectures on the physical and chemical sciences, delivered to medical students on April 5, 1807]
Published by Montpellier: Fontenay-Picot, 6 Mai 1807.
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)
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First edition. Stitched wraps with paper covers. Inscribed by "Pres. by Wm. Maclure 1835" in pen on title. Medium 8vo (21,5cm). pp. viii (, 220, [ii] blank. . Good. Top cover missing, spine (paper and title) present but barely readable. First two sections together but detached from volume, still unopened with sporadic spots (toned/foxed/stained) within. There is old [insect?] damage manifest in three puncture or worm holes ultimately affecting several missing letters (easily discernible) on 5 pages of text. [Detail: first 'hole' visible from rear to pp. 109 affecting on or below the last word of last text line; second (smaller) hole from rear to p. 210 at bottom corner margin; third is a larger 'divot' visible from p. 201 on, with the minimal text loss at pp. 209-213]. He was one of the astronomers at Montpellier in 1761 on a 15th-19th Century compendium of voyages relating to transit of Venus observations. His interests were in multiple scientific fields through 1810 but his writings changed in 1814 to a literatry nature. Claude was brother of French poet Jean-Antoine Roucher 1745-94 whose demise via guillotine was subject of his 1834 play, La Mort Heroique de J.-A. Roucher.ou la Conspiration des prisonniers de Saint-Lazare, tragedie en 5 actes, en vers [The Heroic Death of J. A. Roucher.or Conspiracy Prisoners of St. Lazare, a tragedy in five acts, in verse]. Writings through 1835 were primarily plays. Scottish born William Maclure 1763-1840 social reformer (with Robert Owen) and advocate of the "Pestalozzi" school system was partner in a British law firm. His 1803 trip to France as a commisioner to settle claims on French government and subsequent travels in Europe shifted his interests to geology. On his return in 1807 [possibly with this title in hand], on his own accord, traveled the country and produced the first US geological map, presenting the results to the American Philosophical Society in the transactions 1809, Volume IV.…
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- Title
- LECONS SUR L'ART D'OBSERVER, relativement aux sciences physiques et medicales, sous forme de prelecons a des cours sur les sciences physiques et chimiques, prononcees en faveur de M.(rs) les etudians en medecine, le 5 Avril 1807 [LESSONS ON THE ART OF OBSERVATION, relating to the physical and medical sciences, in the form of lectures on the physical and chemical sciences, delivered to medical students on April 5, 1807]
- Author
- Roucher-Deratte, C. (Claude).
- Publisher
- Montpellier: Fontenay-Picot, 6 Mai 1807.
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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- Medicine/traditional
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