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Entretiens sur la pluralit‚ des mondes , garden and Sky sketch
No full textPage image from bound volume which has the following bibliographic description: 125 pages ; 15 cmBernard de Fontenelle was a French scientist. Entretiens Sur La Pluralit, Des Mondes  was very popular exposition of the principles of astronomy and was influential in promoting the acceptance of the Copernican system
Dialogues of the dead, ancient and modern. The second part Dedicated to Lucian in Elysium.
No full textLucian's ghost: or, Dialogues between the dead, wandering in the Elyzian shades. Being certain satyrical remarques upon the vain ostentatious humours of several learned and philosophical men and women, as well ancient as modern. Composed first in French, and now paraphras'd into English, by a person of quality.
No full textNew dialogues of the dead in three parts / dedicated to Lusian in Elysium ; made English by J.D.
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Enée et Lavinie
No full textLibretto of the opera "Enée et Lavinie" by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle. Pascal Collasse composed the music of the opera which premiered on November 7, 1690. The plot, which Bovier de Fontenelle adapted from Virgil's "Aeneid, Book vii," revolves around the marriage of Enée (i.e., Aeneas) to the Latin bride Lavinia
Entretiens sur la pluralit‚ des mondes, title page
No full textPage image from bound volume which has the following bibliographic description: 125 pages ; 15 cmBernard de Fontenelle was a French scientist. Entretiens Sur La Pluralit, Des Mondes  was very popular exposition of the principles of astronomy and was influential in promoting the acceptance of the Copernican system
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Thetis et Pelée
No full textLibretto of the opera "Thetis et Pelée" by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle. In the plot, the Nereid Thetis is wooed by Jupiter and Neptune, as well as by a mortal, Pelée (Peleus). When a storm caused by Neptune disrupts a celebration Jupiter gave in honor of Thetis, an oracle is consulted, which foretells that Thetis's husband will one day be less powerful than his son. Neptune and Jupiter withdraw their claims, and Thetis marries Pelée. Pascal Collasse composed the music of the opera which premiered at the Paris Opéra on January 11, 1689. This copy includes an engraved frontispiece titled, "Thetis et Pelée" by Juan Dolivar (undersigned as J. Dolivart)
A discourse of the plurality of worlds written in French by the most ingenious author of the Dialogues of the dead ; and translated into English by Sir W.D., Knight.
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