Robert Smith 1689 1768 (3 results)
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Published by veuve Girard & F. Seguin & J. Aubert, 1767
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Seller: Libreria Brighenti, Bologna, BO, ItalyLibreria Brighenti
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Add to basketRilegato. Condition: ottimo. prima edizione. Cours complet d' optique, traduit de l 'anglois, contenant la théorie, la pratique et les usages de cette science. SMITH, Robert (1689-1768). Avignon, veuve Girard & F. Seguin & J. Aubert, 1767. Avec des additions considérables sur toutes les nouvelles découvertes qu'on a faites en ce…tte matière depuis la publication de l' ouvrage anglois, par L.P.P. 2 volumi in- 4°, piena pelle coeva (con qualche graffio), taglio rosso. (4), xxiii, 472 pp. e 38 tavole incise in rame ripiegate f.t.; (2), 536 pp., 1 f. (errata) e 35 tavole rip. f.t. Bell' esemplare. Edizione originale della traduzione francese. > (Biogr. univ. , pp. 457-58). > (Becker Collection in Ophthalmolgy, 345). Poggendorff, II, 945. British Optical Association Library, I, p. 194. King, History of the telescope, pp. 84-85.
More imagesPublished by Avignon: Le Veuve Girard, François Seguin, Jean Aubert, et Paris: Jombert, Saillant, 1767
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Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First French language edition. Two volumes. (6) iii-xxviii, 472; (2), 536, (1) pp. with 73 folding plates. Hardcovers, bound in full period calf, edges red. The bindings well rubbed, but solid. Light, largely marginal foxing.
Published by Printed for T. and J. Merrill, sold by B. Dod, J. Whiston and B. White, J. Nourse, M. Cooper, J. Fletcher and D. Prince, London, 1759
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Seller: Colin Coleman Music, Stewkley, United KingdomColin Coleman Music
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Add to basketSize: 8vo. xx, 280, [xxv (index)] pp. + xxix folding plates. Modern leather with old marbled boards, uncut. Tables. From the collection of Christopher Hogwood (1941-2014). Including a table showing the rates of beating of tempered 5ths on the various notes of the scale calculated for a series of pitches or performance the temper…aments used are mean-tone and Smith's own system of equal harmony. It is significant that his approach to the problem of tuning a keyboard instrument was through the judgment of the musician's ear: he tried out his equal harmony on the harpsichord, and the first organ of the Foundling Hospital, with its system of alternative notes actuated by selective stops, is said to have been built under his directions. In several striking respects he anticipated Helmholtz, who, however, did not know his work. Second edition. RISM B/VI/2 p.788. Gregory p.255. ESTC T36020. 8vo. xx, 280, [xxv (index)] pp. + xxix folding plates.
