Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes : digression sur les anciens et les modernes
1955, First Edition. Oxford : Clarendon Press. Very good cloth copy in a good dust-wrapper, somewhat foxed and worn at the edges. Text edges and prelims somewhat foxed; front free endpaper scuffed (as from a removed bookplate). Remains well-preserved overall; internally strong and clean. Item #476749
Physical description; 218 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Edited by Robert Shackleton. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introduction – Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes – Digression sur les anciens et les modernes – Notes and variants – Bibliography – Index. Subjects; Plurality of worlds – Early works to 1800. Astronomy – Early works to 1800. Ancients and moderns – 17th-18th centuries. Philosophy – 17th-18th centuries.
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