[Geography] Figura Telluris

Determinata per observationes D.N.N. de Maupertuis, Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier (..) et Domini Abbatis Outhier (..) Comitante Domino Celsio (..) ad circulum polarem. Autore D.N. de Maupertuis (transl. into Latin by:) Alaricus Zeller M.D., Leipzig, Breitkopf, 1741, 12mo, (12),190 pp.

Leather, title with vignette, map with polar circle in northern Finland among other things, complete with 9 folding mathematical figures and multiple charts in the text. Binding scratched, notes on endpapers, inside good with the odd brown stain. Highly interesting calculations regarding the shape of our planet by means of measuring the meridional circumference on the polar circle with an elliptical integral. Rare.