‎ARAGO (François)‎
‎OEUVRES COMPLETES DE FRANCOIS ARAGO publiées d'après son ordre sous la direction de M. J.A. Barral (avec une introduction par A. De HUMBOLDT) -- EDITION ORIGINALE -- 17 VOLUMES (COMPLETE SET) -- COLLECTION COMPLETE DES OEUVRES D'ARAGO‎

‎P., Gide & Baudry, 1854/162, 17 VOLUMES in 8 reliés en plein veau glacé rouge, dos ornés de fers et caissons dorés, filets et fers dorés sur les plats, toutes tranches dorées (reliures de l'époque), (2 coiffes légèrement émoussées, quelques épidermures et plats frottés), collection illustrée d'UN PORTRAIT, DE NOMBREUSES FIGURES DANS LE TEXTE ET PLANCHES HORS TEXTE‎

Reference : 14100

‎----EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- COLLECTION BIEN COMPLETE (17 VOLUMES) DES OEUVRES D'ARAGO : Notices biographiques. P., Gide & Baudry, 1854/1859 (3 volumes) - Notices scientifiques. P., Gide & Baudry, 1854/1858 (5 volumes) - Voyages scientifiques. P., Gide, 1857 (1 volume) - Mémoires scientifiques. P., Gide, 1858/1859 (2 volumes) - Mélanges. P., Gide, 1859 (1 volume) - Astronomie populaire. P., Gide, 1860/1861 (4 volumes) - Tables : Discours de M. FLOURENS prononcé aux funérailles de F. ARAGO, Notice chronologique sur les oeuvres de F. ARAGO, tables des auteurs et des personnages cités dans les oeuvres de F. ARAGO, Table cosmique, Table analytique et alphabétique des matières). P., Gide, 1862 (1 volume) - SOIT 17 VOLUMES ---- "ARAGO made important discoveries in electro-magnetism (especially the phenomenon of rotatory magnetics), in optics, in astronomy and physics. He may be said to have proved the relation between the aurora borealis and magnetic variations. He greatly promoted the acceptance of the undulatory theory of light and made important advances in the doctrine of the polarisation of light. Other minor achivements were made in the department of photometric measurements of the brightness of the stars, the elastic force of steam and other gases". (Sotheran N° 131) ---- "ARAGO published no single scientific treatise of major significance during his life time. After the June days of 1848, he began arranging his papers in preparation for a complete edition. It was published posthumously as Oeuvres de François Arago, J. A. Barral ed., 17 vols (Paris, 1854/1862), with an introduction by Humboldt. It contains most of his published articles (somewhat edited) and reports, the revised portions of his lectures (Astronomie populaire), and many previously unpublished notes". (DSB I) ** (P7.141.14100)‎