Le magnetisme.

Paris :: Hachette, 1875., 1875. Series : Bibliotheque des Merveilles. Small 8vo. 328 pp. 104 wood engravings ; foxed. Original blind- and gilt-stamped navy cloth; text block realigned with covers, kozo inner joints. Very good. [380] Jean Charles Rodolphe Radau was an astronomer and mathematician who worked in Paris at the Revue des deux Mondes for most of his life. He was the co-founder of the Bulletin Astronomique. Radau won the Prix Damoiseau of the French Academy of Sciences in 1892 working on planetary perturbations in the motion of the Moon. This work was of such a high quality that he was elected to the Academy in 1897.