Cours Complete Optique - Contenant la Theorie, la Pratique

Cours Complete Optique - Contenant la Theorie, la Pratique by Robert Smith. Published by La Veuve Girard Francois Seguin Jean Aubert, 1767. Hardcover 1050 pages NoISBN Language: French. Cours Complete Optique - Contenant la Theorie, la Pratique by Robert Smith. Published by La Veuve Girard Francois Seguin Jean Aubert in 1767. Hardcover. Les Usages de Cette Science. Containing 73 folding copper engraved plates in the two volumes. First French edition of the translation of Smith's Complete System of Opticks by Esprit Pezenas. This work, which was largely based on Newton's great opus, was a popular, mathematical and philosophical treatise on the principles of light, the properties of the eye, reflection and refraction, methods of grinding and polishing lenses. Rare used book out of print.