[Meteorology] TOALDO, Giuseppe Essai météorologique sur la véritable influence des astres, des saisons et changemens de tems, fondé sur de longues observations, & appliqué aux usages de l'agriculture, de la médecine, de la navigation, &c. [...]. Nouvelle édition rendue meilleure, & beaucoup augmentée. Traduit de l'italien par M. Joseph d'Aquin [...]. On y a joint la traduction françoise des Pronostics d'Aratus, traduits du grec en italien, par M. Antoine-Louis Bricci [...]. Chambéry, M.F. Gorrin, 4to: xxviii-317-[pp.; 3 fold. tables (marg. dampstaining, soiling in text due to pp. stuck together, defects to pp. xix and 7-8 (part of text unreadable), sm. marg. ink staining in begin., sm. foxing). Reused binding: contemp. vellum, ink titled flat spine (sm. stains, pastedowns and flyleaves renewed). Uncut copy. First French edition (1st Italian: by the physicist Joseph Daquin (1732-1815), pioneer in psychiatry. Important work for meteorology establishing the lunar and stellar influences on weather. It is based on observations of the pluviometry and temperatures in Padua from until (cfr the 3 fold. plates). Toaldo was the first to observe the connection between tides and changes in weather. He also observed the influence of weather on the number of deaths; p. shows a table of the deaths in Padua for the first 3 months of The abbot Toaldo (1719-was appointed to the Chair of Astronomy in Padua in He edited the works of Galilei and was a fervent defender of Benjamin Franklin's view of atmospheric electricity. Following Toaldo's work, the translation by Antoine-Louis Bricci of Aratus's work on astronomy "Phenomena". Ref. Riccardi II:- Blake - Wellcome V:
[Meteorology] TOALDO, Giuseppe Essai météorologique sur la véritable influence des astres, des saisons et changemens de tems, fondé sur de longues observations, & appliqué aux usages de l'agriculture, de la médecine, de la navigation, &c. [...]. Nouvelle édition rendue meilleure, & beaucoup augmentée. Traduit de l'italien par M. Joseph d'Aquin [...]. On y a joint la traduction françoise des Pronostics d'Aratus, traduits du grec en italien, par M. Antoine-Louis Bricci [...]. Chambéry, M.F. Gorrin, 4to: xxviii-317-[pp.; 3 fold. tables (marg. dampstaining, soiling in text due to pp. stuck together, defects to pp. xix and 7-8 (part of text unreadable), sm. marg. ink staining in begin., sm. foxing). Reused binding: contemp. vellum, ink titled flat spine (sm. stains, pastedowns and flyleaves renewed). Uncut copy. First French edition (1st Italian: by the physicist Joseph Daquin (1732-1815), pioneer in psychiatry. Important work for meteorology establishing the lunar and stellar influences on weather. It is based on observations of the pluviometry and temperatures in Padua from until (cfr the 3 fold. plates). Toaldo was the first to observe the connection between tides and changes in weather. He also observed the influence of weather on the number of deaths; p. shows a table of the deaths in Padua for the first 3 months of The abbot Toaldo (1719-was appointed to the Chair of Astronomy in Padua in He edited the works of Galilei and was a fervent defender of Benjamin Franklin's view of atmospheric electricity. Following Toaldo's work, the translation by Antoine-Louis Bricci of Aratus's work on astronomy "Phenomena". Ref. Riccardi II:- Blake - Wellcome V:
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