Author: LESSER, FR. CHR. & J.G. LESSER & SPITTLER, L.T.
Title: Anmerckungen von der Baumanns-Höhle wie er sie selbst Anno 1734. den 21. May befunden. Nebst Beyf"gung derer natürlichen Ursachen I. Woher das Tropf-Stein-Wasser komme, und wie es zu gehe... II. Warum die Lichter in den Höhlen nicht gerne brennen, sondern leicht ausgehen. III Warum ein Ruf, oder losgeschossene Pistole, einen ungemeinen starcken Schall darin mache? ... 4te weit verm. Aufl. B.u.w. 2) SPITTLER, [L.T.] Beobachtungen über die Grundgesetze eines Staats.
Description: Nordhausen; Tuebingen, Bey Johann Heinrich Grosz; Bey Johann David Born, 1745. - 1777. sm 8vo. 2 vols. in 1. W. woodc. vigns., head- and tailpieces. Early 19th c. green boards w. red spine label., edges of covers badly rubbed.). [A-E8; A-B8, C2]. (VIII, 8-78, II pp.). (36 pp.). Ferguson II, 28: Lesser, 1692-1745. 'He was devoted to natural history and besides the present work ['Lithotheologie'] he wrote others of a similar character on the sun, insects, ... he wrote a description of a visit he paid that remarkable place at Rübeland, in the Harz: Baumann's Höhle, Nordhausen 1734, 4th ed. 1745.' He was a member of the Leopoldine and Berlin Academies.: Biogr. univ. XI, 259.: Based on his investigations in the Baumann's cave he describes the formation of stone out of lime-water, he wonders why candles burn with difficulty down the cave, and the working of echo's. 4th and last edition.; Bound up in this early 19th c. boards binding we find a publication by Spittler ['Licentiat'] on the basic laws of a state, see Biogr. Univ. S, p. 267

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