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ROBERT SMITH - Cours Complete Optique. Contenant la Théorie, la Pratique & les Usages de cette Science

Title: Cours Complete Optique. Contenant la Théorie, la Pratique & les Usages de cette Science
Description: La Veuve Girard & François Seguin / Jean Aubert, 1767. Leder band. 4to. With a total of 73 folding copper engraved plates in the two volumes. First French edition of this translation of Smith's Complete System of Opticks (1738), by Esprit Pézénas (1692-1776). This work, which was largely based on Newton"s great opus, was a "popular, mathematical and philosophical treatise on the principles of light, the properties of the eye, reflection and refraction, methods of grinding and polishing lenses" (British Optical Association Library I, 194). Cond./Kwaliteit: Als nieuw.

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Price: EUR 1850.00 = appr. US$ 2010.67 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 12505

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