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Traite de la lumiere. : Où sont expliquées les causes de ce qui luy arrive dans la reflexion, & dans la refraction. Et particulierement dans l'etrange refraction du cristal d'Islande. / Par Monsieur Christian Huygens, seigneur de Zeelhem. Avec un discours de la cause de la pesanteur.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Wave theory of light.
- Huygens' principle.
- Refraction, Double.
- Gravitation--Early works to 1800.
- Gravitation.
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 124 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 125-128 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 129-180 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)
- Place of Publication:
- A Leide, : Chez Pierre vander Aa ..., MDCXC [1690]
- Notes:
- Title page in red and black.
- "Discours de la cause de la pesanteur" has special t.p.
- There exist two states of the title leaves for this first edition, one with the full name of the author, the other bearing only his initials, "C.H.D.Z."
- Cited in:
- Grolier 100 science 54.
- Cushing H565.
- Dibner. Heralds of science. 146.
- OCLC:
- 19375386
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