1753 OPTICS & Light Physics Illustrated Newton Descartes Telescope Jean Trabaud
An extremely rare and valuable treatise on optics by Jean Trabaud. ‘The Movement of Light, Principles of Optics’ is a manual on the scientific application of optics. It was written in a pedagogical manner drawing a significant amount of its lessons from the discoveries of Descartes and Isaac Newton. This work is a thorough and accurate summary of the discoveries of Descartes and Newton and discusses phenomena such as rainbows and reflections. Other important topics include sections on microscopes, sun dials, telescopes, and astronomical dating!
1753 OPTICS & Light Physics Illustrated Newton Descartes Telescope Jean Trabaud
An extremely rare and valuable treatise on optics by Jean Trabaud. ‘The Movement of Light, Principles of Optics’ is a manual on the scientific application of optics. It was written in a pedagogical manner drawing a significant amount of its lessons from the discoveries of Descartes and Isaac Newton. This work is a thorough and accurate summary of the discoveries of Descartes and Newton and discusses phenomena such as rainbows and reflections. Other important topics include sections on microscopes, sun dials, telescopes, and astronomical dating!
Item number: #5382
Price: $750
TRABAUD, Jean
Le mouvement de la lumiere, ou premiers principes d’optique
A Paris : chez Durand … : Pissot …, 1753.
Details:
- Collation: Complete with all pages
- [2], xvi, 344
- 6 folding engravings
- Language: Latin
- Binding: Leather; tight & secure
- Size: ~8in X 5in (20cm x 13m)
- Rare with auction records and price comparisons as high as $2,000
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5382
Categories
Mathematics & Physics
Medicine & Science
Authors
TRABAUD, Jean
Printing Date
18th Century
Language
Latin
Binding
Leather
Book Condition
Excellent
Collation
Complete