Cosmologische Briefe über die Einrichtung des Weltbaues
By: ausgefertigt von J.H. Lambert
Publisher: Bey Eberhard Kletts Wittib.
Published: 1761
Place of publication: Augspurg
Language: ger
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Cosmography; Early works to 1800; Cosmology; Astronomy
Other titles: Système du monde
Description: First edition of one of the most important works in stellar astronomy. Lambert had the idea that what appears as the Milky Way might be the visual effect of a lens-shaped universe.
Notes: Contains "Herrn Edmund Halley Tafel der Laufbahn, der von ihme berechneten Cometen" (folded chart).

First edition. Later rewritten and published under title: Système du monde, Berlin, 1770.

Printer's device on title page.

Head and tail pieces; initials.

Steck, M. Bibliographia Lambertiana, 98

Lalande, J. Bibliographie astronomique, 475

Wolf, R. Geshichte der Astronomie. page 501

Also issued online.