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NOLLET Abbé: Leçons de pysique expérimentale, Paris, Durand,…
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135
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NOLLET Abbé: Leçons de pysique expérimentale, Paris, Durand,…
See original version (French)
Estimate €80 - €100
Voluntary lot
Description
NOLLET Abbé: Leçons de pysique expérimentale, Paris, Durand, 1771, 6 vols in-12 full calf with significant leather loss on the last 3 vols, numerous folding plates (not collated), as is, complete with the vols, inside fresh. This famous work, originally published in 1743, was a great success. The illustrations, both precise and suggestive, show the operations and the many instruments described in the text. The frontispiece, which depicts Abbé Nollet performing an experiment in the presence of a distinguished audience, is one of the first iconographic documents to establish science as an object of culture and worldly sociability. Jean Antoine Nollet, known as Abbé Nollet, was a physicist. He was associated with the work of Du Fay and Réaumur.
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