Roche, Edouard

One-page autograph note signed to Adolphe Quetelet (1799-1874, Belgian physicist, statistician, and astronomer of the Brussels Royal Observatory).

n.p. n.d. 4to, trimmed and measuring 21 x 21.5mm., approx. 100 words, stains from previous mount on verso, else a very good example; in French. Offering apologies on behalf of a Dr. Walker for not having sent Vol. 6 of an unnamed work, and saying that he has been preoccupied with scientific questions. Roche (1820-1883) was a French mathematician, specialist in celestial mechanics, geophysics, and meteorology; corresponding member of the Academie des Sciences, who proposed the first "earth model" with a solid nucleus. Item #3747

Price: $100.00