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Astronomical and geographical information on regions in China and India

GOUYE, (Thomas).
Observations physiques et mathematiques, pour servir a l'histoire naturelle & à la perfection de l'astronomie & de la geographie: envoyées des Indes et de la Chine à l'Académie Royale des Sciences à Paris, par les Peres Jesuites.

Woodcut coat-of-arms on title, 2 double-page engraved maps, one depicting a part of India with the course of the river Ganges and the other one with the course of the river Ava, one engraved plate with the alphabet of Bengalen and the people of Baramas.

Woodcut coat-of-arms on title, 2 double-page engraved maps, one depicting a part of India with the course of the river Ganges and the other one with the course of the river Ava, one engraved plate with the alphabet of Bengalen and the people of Baramas.

Woodcut coat-of-arms on title, 2 double-page engraved maps, one depicting a part of India with the course of the river Ganges and the other one with the course of the river Ava, one engraved plate with the alphabet of Bengalen and the people of Baramas.

Woodcut coat-of-arms on title, 2 double-page engraved maps, one depicting a part of India with the course of the river Ganges and the other one with the course of the river Ava, one engraved plate with the alphabet of Bengalen and the people of Baramas.

Woodcut coat-of-arms on title, 2 double-page engraved maps, one depicting a part of India with the course of the river Ganges and the other one with the course of the river Ava, one engraved plate with the alphabet of Bengalen and the people of Baramas.



Paris, Jean Anisson, Imprimerie Royale, 1692. 4to. Contemporary calf with gilt spine. Woodcut coat-of-arms on title, 2 double-page engraved maps, one depicting a part of India with the course of the river Ganges and the other one with the course of the river Ava, one engraved plate with the alphabet of Bengalen and the people of Baramas. (4), 114 pp.

Rare first edition of an extensive account of several mathematical, physical and other scientific observations made to improve the astronomical and geographical information on regions in China and India. The work contains several reports on China and Siam, made by different Jesuits, like father Richaud who comments on the astronomy and calendar of the Siamese and François Noël who calculated the longitude and latitude of several villages in China. Other reports concern, among others, Cassini's tables of Jupiter's satellites, Tartary at the frontier with China, a journey from the Junnam province in China to the city of Ava as it was made by some 30.000 Chinese fleeing from Tartary and observations on a comet which appeared in 1689. All these reports were collected and commented on by father Thomas Gouye (1650-1725), a French Jesuit who taught mathematics and was made an honorary member of the Académie des Sciences in 1669.

Good copy.
De Backer-Sommervogel III, 1640-1641; not in Chadenat or Lust.

Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Cartography  China  India  Jesuits  Mathematics  Science 

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