Small Astronomy Armillary Sphere - Noel Antoine Pluche - 1749

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Noel Antoine Pluche - 1756 Antique Print. Sphere Armillaire. Armillary Sphere. Astronomy

Antique Copper Plate Published 1749-56, Paris for "Le Spectacle de la nature" by Noel Antoine Pluche. Folds as issued.

Noël-Antoine Pluche (13 November 1688 – 19 November 1761), known as the abbé Pluche, was a French priest. He is now known for his Spectacle de la nature, a most popular work of natural history. Pluche, son of a baker, was born in Reims, in a street now named after him. He became a teacher of rhetoric. The Bishop of Laon made him head of the town's college, a post he accepted to escape judicial consequences of opposing the papal bull Unigenitus (1713). He withdrew in 1749 to La Varenne-Saint-Maur, near Paris, where he died.

His Spectacle de la nature, ou Entretiens sur les particularités de l'Histoire naturelle qui ont paru les plus propres à rendre les jeunes gens curieux et à leur former l'esprit was published in nine volumes 1732–1742, and widely translated all over Europe. Although it influenced many to become naturalists, it was a work of popularization, not of science.

These engravings are getting harder to locate. Excellent condition. Pricing and grading commensurate.

Noel Antoine Pluche - 1756 Antique Print. Sphere Armillaire. Armillary Sphere. Astronomy

Antique Copper Plate Published 1749-56, Paris for "Le Spectacle de la nature" by Noel Antoine Pluche. Folds as issued.

Noël-Antoine Pluche (13 November 1688 – 19 November 1761), known as the abbé Pluche, was a French priest. He is now known for his Spectacle de la nature, a most popular work of natural history. Pluche, son of a baker, was born in Reims, in a street now named after him. He became a teacher of rhetoric. The Bishop of Laon made him head of the town's college, a post he accepted to escape judicial consequences of opposing the papal bull Unigenitus (1713). He withdrew in 1749 to La Varenne-Saint-Maur, near Paris, where he died.

His Spectacle de la nature, ou Entretiens sur les particularités de l'Histoire naturelle qui ont paru les plus propres à rendre les jeunes gens curieux et à leur former l'esprit was published in nine volumes 1732–1742, and widely translated all over Europe. Although it influenced many to become naturalists, it was a work of popularization, not of science.

These engravings are getting harder to locate. Excellent condition. Pricing and grading commensurate.

Code : A776

Cartographer : Cartographer / Engraver / Publisher: Noel Antoine Pluche

Date : Publication Place / Date - Circa 1749

Size : Sheet size: approx 13.4 x 12.8 Cm 

Availability : Available

Type - Genuine - Antique 

Grading A

Where Applicable - Folds as issued. Light box photo shows the folio leaf centre margin hinge ‘glue’, this is not visible otherwise.

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