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Influential treatise on physics

HAÜY, Abbé René Just.
Traité élémentaire de physique.

With 19 folding etched plates by Adam.

With 19 folding etched plates by Adam.

With 19 folding etched plates by Adam.

With 19 folding etched plates by Adam.

With 19 folding etched plates by Adam.



Trosième édition, revue et considéralement augmentée. Paris, Widow Courcier, 1821. 2 vols. 8vo. Original wrappers with printed title labels to spines. With 19 folding etched plates by Adam. (2), lxij, 510, (2); (4), 452 pp.

Third revised and augmented edition of this elementary treatise on physics by Abbé René Just Haüy (1743-1822), celebrated mineralogist and crystalogist. The first volume is devoted to the general properties of bodies, attraction, the (now obsolete) caloric theory, water, air and electricity; the second volume treats magnetism and light. The work was used as school book and thus became an influential reference work. Haüy is best remembered for his important research on minerals and the electric properties of crystals. He cooperated with Lavoisier and had a strong influence on French science, one of his students being Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.

Very good untrimmed copy.- (Some plate sl. waterstained; some foxing; wrappers sl. damaged).
Dictionary of Scientific Biography 6, pp. 178-82; Poggendorf I, 1038-9.

Related Subjects: 19th Century  France  Physics  Science 

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