François MOIGNO (1804-1884) abbot and mathematician,... - Lot 327 - Ader

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François MOIGNO (1804-1884) abbot and mathematician,... - Lot 327 - Ader
François MOIGNO (1804-1884) abbot and mathematician, scientific popularizer. 42 L.A.S. and 1 L.S., Paris 1842-1866 and n.d., to various correspondents, and an autograph manuscript signed; 55 pages in various formats, some addresses, and 3 pages and a half small in-4. Interesting set of works by this pioneer of the popularization of science. Having left his teaching at the Jesuits, Moigno collaborated to different newspapers as a scientific editor, and became in 1852 the editor in chief of Cosmos, the great encyclopedic review of the 19th century. The correspondence, where the letters are often filled with his small handwriting, concerns essentially his participation in different newspapers or periodicals: writing encyclopedic articles, translations, corrections of proofs and requests for books; but also the realization of a statue of St. Francis Xavier, a request for plants for the garden of the Jesuit college in the rue des Postes (1842), his Traité de télégraphie électrique (1847), a visit to Arago, who was ill, about proofs to be reread; as well as his difficulties with certain publishers, his financial problems, a solicitation to obtain a place in the chapter of Saint-Denis (1866), etc. The letters are addressed to different personalities: Eugène Arnoult, editor of L'Institut, Journal général des sociétés et travaux scientifiques de la France et de l'étranger (5 letters); Théodore Bailleul, director of the Mallet-Bachelier printing house; Achille Comte, physician and zoologist (4); Théophile Delacroix, agent of the Société d'Encouragement (3); Honoré Husson, sculptor; Le Pecq de La Clôture, collaborator of the Encyclopédie du XIXe siècle (5); Charles de Mirbel, professor of culture at the Muséum; the count Ange de Saint-Priest, director of the Encyclopédie du XIXe siècle (14), etc. The manuscript, "Académie des Sciences - séance du lundi 26 août 1861" reports several communications by Urbain de Tessan (on the observations of the rear-admiral de Chabannes relative to the regime of the winds along the oriental coasts of South America), General Morin (on the heating and ventilation of the Parisian theaters), Adolphe d'Archiac (on a memoir of Albert Gaudry devoted to the geology of Attica), Claude Bernard (on the poisons which act directly on the heart), etc.
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