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Auction archive: Lot number 84

CORNU, Marie Alfred (1841-1902) Détermination de la vitesse ...

Estimate
£300 - £500
ca. US$594 - US$990
Price realised:
£250
ca. US$495
Auction archive: Lot number 84

CORNU, Marie Alfred (1841-1902) Détermination de la vitesse ...

Estimate
£300 - £500
ca. US$594 - US$990
Price realised:
£250
ca. US$495
Beschreibung:

CORNU, Marie Alfred (1841-1902). Détermination de la vitesse de la lumière d'après des expériences exécutées en 1874 entre l'Obervatoire et Montlhéry . Paris Gauthier-Villars, 1876. 4° (294 x 227mm). 7 folding engraved plates (lower inner corners at end lightly waterstained, occasional light foxing). Modern cloth, original wrappers preserved. FIRST EDITION of Cornu's redetermination of the velocity of light by Fizeau's method for which he was awarded the La Caze Prize of the Académie des Sciences.
CORNU, Marie Alfred (1841-1902). Détermination de la vitesse de la lumière d'après des expériences exécutées en 1874 entre l'Obervatoire et Montlhéry . Paris Gauthier-Villars, 1876. 4° (294 x 227mm). 7 folding engraved plates (lower inner corners at end lightly waterstained, occasional light foxing). Modern cloth, original wrappers preserved. FIRST EDITION of Cornu's redetermination of the velocity of light by Fizeau's method for which he was awarded the La Caze Prize of the Académie des Sciences. FIZEAU, Armand-Hippolyte-Louis (1819-1896). "Sur une méthode propre a rechercher si l'azimut de polarisation du rayon refracté est influencé par le mouvement du corps réfringent", extracted from: Annales de Chymie et de Physique , 3rd series, pp.1-35. Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1859. 8° (208 x 124mm). (First 2 leaves a little stained). Modern boards. (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 84
Auction:
Datum:
23 Apr 2008
Auction house:
Christie's
23 April 2008, London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

CORNU, Marie Alfred (1841-1902). Détermination de la vitesse de la lumière d'après des expériences exécutées en 1874 entre l'Obervatoire et Montlhéry . Paris Gauthier-Villars, 1876. 4° (294 x 227mm). 7 folding engraved plates (lower inner corners at end lightly waterstained, occasional light foxing). Modern cloth, original wrappers preserved. FIRST EDITION of Cornu's redetermination of the velocity of light by Fizeau's method for which he was awarded the La Caze Prize of the Académie des Sciences.
CORNU, Marie Alfred (1841-1902). Détermination de la vitesse de la lumière d'après des expériences exécutées en 1874 entre l'Obervatoire et Montlhéry . Paris Gauthier-Villars, 1876. 4° (294 x 227mm). 7 folding engraved plates (lower inner corners at end lightly waterstained, occasional light foxing). Modern cloth, original wrappers preserved. FIRST EDITION of Cornu's redetermination of the velocity of light by Fizeau's method for which he was awarded the La Caze Prize of the Académie des Sciences. FIZEAU, Armand-Hippolyte-Louis (1819-1896). "Sur une méthode propre a rechercher si l'azimut de polarisation du rayon refracté est influencé par le mouvement du corps réfringent", extracted from: Annales de Chymie et de Physique , 3rd series, pp.1-35. Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1859. 8° (208 x 124mm). (First 2 leaves a little stained). Modern boards. (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 84
Auction:
Datum:
23 Apr 2008
Auction house:
Christie's
23 April 2008, London, South Kensington
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