Lettre sur le progrès des sciences
By: par Monsieur de Maupertuis
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 1752
Place of publication: Paris?
Language: fre
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Medicine; Natural history; Science; Astronomy; Optics; Discovery and exploration
Notes: Place of publication suggested by Cioranescu.

Signatures: pi² A-K⁸⁻⁴ L² (C3 missigned C4, G3 missigned G2, and G4 missigned G3)

Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head piece; initial.

Cioranescu, A. 18. s., 43870.

John Carter Brown Library copy untrimmed and bound in contemporary marbled wrappers.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Louisa D. Sharpe Metcalf Fund.
Table of contents: title: Terres Australes; title: Patagons; title: Passage par le nord; title: Observations sur les variations de l'aimant; title: Continent de l'Afrique; title: Pyramides, & cavités; title: Collège des sciences étrangères; title: Ville latine; title: Astronomie; title: Parallaxe de la lune, & son usage pour connoître la figure de la terre; title: Utilité du supplice des criminels; title: Observations sur la médecine; title: Expériences sur les animaux; title: Observations microscopiques; title: Miroirs brûlans; title: Expériences métaphysiques; title: Recherches à interdire.