‎LA CAILLE (Abbé Nicolas Louis de)‎
‎Leçons élémentaires d'optique -- BON EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎P., Guérin, 1756, un volume in 8 relié en plein veau moucheté, dos orné de fers dorés, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque), (petit accroc à la coiffe), 4pp., 204pp., 12 planches dépliantes‎

Reference : 2957

‎---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- Nouvelle édition REVUE, CORRIGEE ET AUGMENTEE (D'UN TRAITE DE PERSPECTIVE) ---- "... LA CAILLE was named to the chair in mathematics once held by Varignon at the Collège Mazarin. In May 1741, in recognition of his work on the meridian and his resolution of the controversy over the shape of the earth, he was received into the Academy of Sciences as an adjoint astronomer. Once again in residence in Paris, he took his professorial duties seriously publishing Leçons élémentaires de mathématiques. In succession other elementary texts followed : ... Leçons élémentaires d'optique (1756). The prompt translations into latin, spanish and english were an eloquent compliment to his books which was destined to go through several french editions as well...". (DSB VII pp. 542/543) ---- "LA CAILLE was one of the first french scientists to come out in favor of NEWTON's theories" ---- Propriétés générales de la lumière - Propriétés de la lumière par rapport à la vision et aux couleurs - La catioptrique et la dioptrique - De la vision - Des télescopes et des microscopes - Des obstacles qu'on rencontre dans la construction des télescopes et des microscopes - De la perspective - De la perspective des ombres - Des ombres solaires ou lunaires - Différens problèmes sur les ombres - etc**2957/ARM1A‎