Exposition du Systeme du Monde, 3rd ed.
Laplace's popular account of the solar system, third edition, printed by Courcier in Paris in 1808 for educated general readers following French astronomy and celestial mechanics. The images are letterpress pages rather than plates: columns of orbital durations and planetary figures, a CHAPITRE PREMIER heading, dense justified type, foxed paper and paper-tape repairs, useful for period numeric tables, small-caps headings and aged-paper texture.
