Pierre Bouguer's Optical Treatise on The Gradation of Light / / W.E.K. Middleton.
In 1760 the first edition of the Traite d’optique sur la gradation de la lumiere of Pierre Bouguer was published posthumously. Bouguer (1698-1758), French mathematician, professor of hydrography, and author of works on the theory of navigation, can also be considered the inventor of photometry, and...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1961 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Contents
- Publisher's note
- Extracts from the Registers of the Royal Academy of Sciences,July 26th, 1758, and March 31st, 1759
- Bouguer's contents
- BOOK ONE: Various Means of Measuring Light, with Several Applications of These
- BOOK TWO: Researches on the Quantity of Light Reflected by Surfaces Both Polished and Rough
- BOOK THREE: Researches on the Transparency and Opacity of Bodies
- Appendix