116

HAÜY René-Just (1743-1822) minéralogiste et cristallographe.

The item was sold for 650

Fees include commission and taxes.

Back to auction
HAÜY René-Just (1743-1822) minéralogiste et cristallographe.
2 L.A.S. "Haüy", 1789 and s.d. 1 page in-4 and 1 page in-8.
Paris March 10, 1789. He wrote to M. Farcy what he thought of the project of system of his correspondent, "with all the frankness of which I make profession, and it is a language which I believed to owe to the confidence of you honoured me and to which I am one cannot be more sensitive. If, in spite of my opinion, which I am far from wishing to pass for a law", he persists in presenting his memoir to the Academy, he advises to address himself to CONDORCET, but he fears that he will not be welcomed there... - 4 September, to M. FRIEDLANDER, transmitting his answer to M. Kastner.
A long L.A.S. from the geologist Ami BOUÉ is attached, Edinburgh 3 October 1816, to Darcet: he works on his thesis on "the state of urine in health and in the different diseases", which requires many experiments, and of which he explains the plan.