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. TOME 1 : LA PESANTEUR ET LA GRAVITATION UNIVERSELLE et LE SON. contenant 26 grandes planches tirées à part dont 3 en couleurs et 445 vignettes insérées dans le texte. XXXI pp + 872 pp. TOME 2 : LA LUMIERE. contenant 27 grandes planches tirées à part dont 13 en couleur et 353 vignettes dans le texte . 668 pages + errata. TOME 3 : LE MAGNETISME ET L' ELECTRICITE . contenant 20 grandes planches tirées à part dont 5 en couleur et 577 vignettes insérées dans le texte . 1007 pages. TOME 4 : LA CHALEUR. contenant 9 grandes planches tirées à part dont 1 en couleur et 324 vignettes inséraes dans le texte . 772 pages. TOME 5 : LA METEOROLOGIE. contenant 31 grandes planches tirées à part dont 9 en couleur et 343 vignettes insérées dans le texte. 1024 pages. EDITION ORIGINALE. en pleine reliure editeur richement décorée.

Amédée Guillemin (born July 5, 1826 in Pierre-de-Bresse, France, d. 1893 Pierre-de-Bresse, France) was a French science writer and a journalist. Guillemin started his studies at Beaune college before taking his final degree in Paris. From 1850 to 1860[1] he taught mathematics in a private school while writing articles for the Liberal press criticizing the Second French Empire. In 1860, he moved to Chambéry where he became a junior deputy editor of the weekly political magazine La Savoie. After the annexation of Savoy by the French empire, he returned to Paris where he became the science editor of l?Avenir national (The Nation's Future). Guillemin presently started writing books of physics and astronomy which became very popular. He wrote The Sky which was translated into many languages. His major work, The Physical World , consisted of five large volumes. His publisher, Hachette, encouraged him to write a series of booklets about astronomy and physics under the title Small popular encyclopaedia , a scientifically sound but accessible collection about sciences and their applications. French astronomer Jacques Crovisier from the Observatoire de Paris suggests he may have been a source of inspiration for Jules Verne's 1865 novel, From the Earth to the Moon.