DUPUIS, Charles-François

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DUPUIS, Charles-François
Origine de tous les cultes, ou Religion universelle. Paris, H. Agasse, An III [1795]. 4 volumes (including the atlas) in 3 volumes in-4 (251 x 191 mm) of XVI, 556 pp. for volume I, followed by the atlas of an engraved frontispiece, VI, pp. 6-16 (without lack) with the explanation of the plates, 22 folding engraved plates ; 2 ff.n.ch, 302, 304 pp. for volume II; 2 ff.n.ch., IV, 1 typographical table, 367 pp., 355 pp. 2 folding typographical tables, 104 pp. for volume III. Marbled calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red edges (contemporary binding). Brunet, II, 901. First edition, a complete copy of the atlas of 24 plates and the allegorical frontispiece engraved by Pacquet after Ducoudray. Charles Dupuis (1742-1802) created in Belleville, in 1778, the first aerial telegraph and communicated with his friend the scientist Jean Fortin who, from his house of Bagneux, observed the signals with the help of a telescope. Dupuis destroyed his invention in 1789 for fear that it would make him suspicious in the eyes of the revolutionaries. The Chappe brothers were to popularize this invention a little later, which is attributed to them today. In his work Origine de tous les cultes, he develops "his system" which attempts to demonstrate the common origin of religions among the Greeks, the Chinese, the Persians, the Egyptians and the Arabs, notably through astronomy, the study of the zodiac and the positions of the sun. A good copy, decoratively bound.
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