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BOSCOVICH, Ruggiero Giuseppe (1711-1787). Dissertationis de lumine pars prima [-pars secunda]. Rome: A. de Rubeis (part 1) and Typographia Komarek (part 2), 1748.
2 parts bound in one, 4° (224 x 165mm). 2 folding engraved plates, woodcut devices on titles, headpieces and initials. (Occasional faint browning and spotting.) Modern half calf (new endpapers).
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF A CRITIQUE OF NEWTON’S OPTICAL THEORIES. ‘Discussing the phenomena of parallax, [Boscovich] drew attention to the distance of fixed stars in dimensions of light years. He formulated, and was the first to do so, a general photometric law of illumination and enounced the law of emission of light known under Lambert’s name’ (DSB). Another edition was published the following year. NO COPY OF EITHER EDITION CAN BE TRACED AS SELLING AT AUCTION IN THE PAST 40 YEARS (ABPC/RBH). Riccardi I, 176 (31).
2 parts bound in one, 4° (224 x 165mm). 2 folding engraved plates, woodcut devices on titles, headpieces and initials. (Occasional faint browning and spotting.) Modern half calf (new endpapers).
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF A CRITIQUE OF NEWTON’S OPTICAL THEORIES. ‘Discussing the phenomena of parallax, [Boscovich] drew attention to the distance of fixed stars in dimensions of light years. He formulated, and was the first to do so, a general photometric law of illumination and enounced the law of emission of light known under Lambert’s name’ (DSB). Another edition was published the following year. NO COPY OF EITHER EDITION CAN BE TRACED AS SELLING AT AUCTION IN THE PAST 40 YEARS (ABPC/RBH). Riccardi I, 176 (31).
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