Dioptricae Pars Prima Continens Librum Primum De Explicatione Principiorum Ex Quibus

by Leonhard Euler

$18,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1769-1770-1771. First edition, a beautiful copy in original wrappers, of Euler’s magnum opus on optics, “widely known and important in the physics of the eighteenth century,” which “laid the foundations of the calculation of optical systems” DSB . “The Dioptricae presented a universal optics with practical applications. Volume 1 explained the

• Binding: Wrappers

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