NEWTON, Isaac. Traité d’Optique sur les Réflexions, Réfractions, Inflexions, et Couleurs de la Lumière. Traduit de l'Anglois par M. Coste sur la seconde Edition, augmentée par l'Auteur.Amsterdam, Pierre Humbert, 1720.
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2 vols. 12mo, mm. 150x90; Contemporary full calf binding, gilded titles and ornaments on bicolour labels, sprayed edges; pp. [XV], 328; pp. 329-583, [17, with the Publisher’s catalogue].
A total of 12 copper plates out text, divided among the 3 vols. of the work. Stamp of extinct library on the Titlepages. Ex-libris of Riccati family Riccati pasted inside cover and on the verso of Titlepages.
First French edition.
This translation, very important for the reception of Newtonian theory in Europe, contributed greatly to their final acceptance after years of criticism and resistance.
Babson: “Coste, the translator, spent many years in England, where he fled on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and where he became intimate with Locke. His translations were of durable service and helped to introduce english thought to the French of the XVIIIth century.” Specimen of prestigious origin; as it belonged to the Riccati Counts, the family of prominent mathematicians from Veneto.
Babson 139; Gray 186; Wallis 186; Dibner N° 148; PMM N° 172; Horblit N° 79b. Cfr. Silvia Mazzone), Jacopo Riccati (1676 - 1754), in Edizione Nazionale Mathematica italiana, http://mathematica.sns.it/index.html.
Sign of wear at the binding, fice specimen. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
A total of 12 copper plates out text, divided among the 3 vols. of the work. Stamp of extinct library on the Titlepages. Ex-libris of Riccati family Riccati pasted inside cover and on the verso of Titlepages.
First French edition.
This translation, very important for the reception of Newtonian theory in Europe, contributed greatly to their final acceptance after years of criticism and resistance.
Babson: “Coste, the translator, spent many years in England, where he fled on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and where he became intimate with Locke. His translations were of durable service and helped to introduce english thought to the French of the XVIIIth century.” Specimen of prestigious origin; as it belonged to the Riccati Counts, the family of prominent mathematicians from Veneto.
Babson 139; Gray 186; Wallis 186; Dibner N° 148; PMM N° 172; Horblit N° 79b. Cfr. Silvia Mazzone), Jacopo Riccati (1676 - 1754), in Edizione Nazionale Mathematica italiana, http://mathematica.sns.it/index.html.
Sign of wear at the binding, fice specimen. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
