The book has a foldout plate with illustrations for its astronomy by lessons, including both the heliocentric Copernican and geocentric Ptolemaic models of the universe. For the latter, the author uses a splendid armillary sphere to illustrate.
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A letter from Collège Royal de Louis-le-Grand to a student named “the most industrious student
Month of December 1824” bound inside my copy of an early 19th century French textbook.
Founded in 1563, the school includes Poincaré, Hugo, Sartre, Delacroix, & Degas as some of its many notable alumni 📚💙
