New elements of optics : Part IV, V, and VI. Containing the theory of catoptrics and dioptrics deduced from physical and mathematical principles; and it [sic] application to the construction and uses of optical instruments: With all their Improvements to the present Time. The whole illustrated with a great variety of copper-plate figures. By B. Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.

Standardized Title:

New elements of optics. Parts 4, 5, 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Optics--Early works to 1850.

Optics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi,[2],131,[1]p.,plates )

Other Title:

New elements of optics.

New elements of optics

Place of Publication:

London : printed for, and sold by the author at no 171 in Fleetstreet, and by all booksellers in city and country, [between 1765 and 1773?]

Notes:

With a half-title.

Internal evidence suggests a date of not before 1765 or after 1773; London streets were numbered in the middle of the 1760s; and the final page advts last line has book title including date "June 6, 1761"; the same advts include 'Institutions of astronomical calculations', th earliest copy known is dated 1765, and 'The description and use of the globes' and its 'Appendix', which were published in [1773].

Possibly issued with 'New elements of optics. Parts I, II, and III' between 1765 and 1773 (cf. T25339).

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T25338.

OCLC:

642555397