TREATISE ON LIGHT. In which are explained the causes of that which occurs in reflexion, & in refraction and particularly in the strange refraction of Iceland Crystal. Rendered into English by Sylvanus P. Thompson.
Published by Macmillan, London, 1912
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Prima versione inglese. Testo inglese. Cm.22,5x17,8. Pg.XII, 128, (4). Legatura in mz.tela con piatti cartonati. Tassello cartaceo, con titoli, applicato al dorso. Esemplare in barbe, su carta distinta, vergata. Frontespizio impresso in rosso nero. Illustrazioni nel testo. Al foglio di guardia anteriore dedica autografa del traduttore Sylvanus Thompson a Silvio Magrini, datata "London, June 1913". Prima edizione a stampa in lingua inglese del celebre "Traité de Lumière" del matematico e astronomo olandese Christiaan Huygens (L'Aia, 14 aprile 1629 ? L'Aia, 8 luglio 1695), pubblicato nel 1690. Intimo amico di Spinoza, fu direttore della "'Académie des Sciences" a Parigi e primo membro onorario straniero della "Royal Society". "The book describes Huygens's conception of the nature of light propagation which makes it possible to explain the laws of geometrical optics shown in Descartes's La Dioptrique, which Huygens aimed to replace. Unlike Newton's corpuscular theory, which was presented in the Opticks, Huygens conceived of light as an irregular series of shock waves which proceeds with very great, but finite, velocity through the ether, similar to sound waves. Moreover, he proposed that each point of a wavefront is itself the origin of a secondary spherical wave, a principle known today as the Huygens?Fresnel principle. The book is considered a pioneering work of theoretical and mathematical physics and the first mechanistic account of an unobservable physical phenomenon" (da Wikipedia). Il volume è impreziosito dalla dedica autografa del traduttore a Silvio Magrini (Ferrara, 1881-1943), docente in Fisica sperimentale all'Università di Bologna, iscritto al Partito Nazionale Fascista dal 1920, ma rimosso dall'incarico dopo la promulgazione delle leggi razziali e deceduto ad Auschwitz nel 1943. > Hardy / Perrin, "The Principles of Optics", 4, "The outstanding characters of the 17th century were Christian Huygens and Sir Isaac Newton". Burke, "Origins of the Science of Crystals", 41, "In his study of the double refraction of light exhibited by the Island Crystal, Huygens viewed crystal regularuty as being the result of the ordering of similar invisible contiguous particles which were ellipsoids of rotation". Bussotti / Lotti, "Cosmology in the Early Modern Age", 313. 400 gr.…
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- Title
- TREATISE ON LIGHT. In which are explained the causes of that which occurs in reflexion, & in refraction and particularly in the strange refraction of Iceland Crystal. Rendered into English by Sylvanus P. Thompson.
- Author
- HUYGENS Christiaan.
- Publisher
- Macmillan, London
- Publication year
- 1912
- Condition
- Discreto
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Copertina rigida
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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