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2 volumes, 4to (247 x 197 mm) 2 unn.ll., XXX, 472 pp., 38 engraved folding plates for volume I; 1 un.l., numbered and engraved plates 39 to 73, 536 pp., 1 un.l. for volume II. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red edges (expertly restored).
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DSB, XII, p. 477.
First edition in French, translated by Pézénas. The classes on optics by Smith, based on Newton's Optics make this "probably the most influential optical text book of the eighteenth century… In turn, its popularity helped to establish the eighteenth-century conviction that light is particulate" (DSB).
Pézenas added more recent discoveries in his translatoin.
Nice copy.
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