Bertrand, Louis; Renouvellemens périodiques des continens terrestres.Charles Pougens, Hocquart, Duprat, Paris, 1799. Octavo, pp. half title, title, viii, folded table, 363.
The work is complete and in the original brown binder wraps. The text is very clean, cut rather crudely at lower margin for reading. Small owner’s stamp on half title (R. L. Luther). In very good condition.
Louis Bertrand (1731-1812), was a Swiss geologist and mathematician. Bertrand was a pupil of the famous Swiss mathematician and scientist Leonhard Euler and became his close friend. In addition to writing a text on geometry Bertrand also wrote on geology. In "Renouvellemens périodiques des continens terrestres" he discusses the evolution of the Earth’s continents and their renewal, the geological processes that formed mountain ranges, stratigraphic layers, caves and fossils (animal and mineral).
