Sience fiction – Fontenelle, Bernard de. – Dialogen über den Mehrheit der Welten. Mit Anmerkungen und Kupfertafeln von Johann Elert-Bode.

445,00 

Describes a fictiv dialogue between an scholary man and a royal lady and her daugther, during a nightly walk. A recitation about astronomical knowledge as off Nikolaus Kopernikus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler and Rene Descartes. He suspects that also outside of the earth, on the stars their are reasonable beings. The plates show stars, the moon, constelation of stars etc. – At the beginning strongly foxed, later only moderate foxing. – Very rare.

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Description

Berlin, Himburg, 1798.

3. corrected and enlarged edition. 18 : 11 cm. 4 leaves, 364 pages, engraved frontispiece and 11 folded, engraved plates. Modern half-calf binding.

450,00 EUR