Trabaud. Le mouvement de la lumière, ou premiers principes d’optique. 1753
TRABAUD.
Oeuvres de Trabaud.
T1. Le mouvement des corps terrestres, considéré dans les machines et dans les corps naturels.
T2. Le mouvement des corps célestes ou premiers principes d'astronomie.
T3. Le mouvement de la lumière, ou premiers principes d’optique.
Paris, Durand et Pissot, 1753.
900 €
8vo(195x119 mm), P1. (2)-viii- 361-(1) pages and 6 folding plates.
P2. (2)-xxiv-376 pages and 6 folding plates.
P3. (2)-344 pages and 6 folding plates.
binding: Contemporary full mottled sheeps, spines gilt in six compartments, titles and volumes numbers in gilt on lettering-pieces, marbled endpapers.
Defects to binding, rubbed and with some old repairs.
Three works of Trabaud. Original editions.
The first on mechanics deals with friction, the strength of solids, clocks, pumps and ship movement.
The second on the movement of celestial bodies discusses astronomy with a treaty of the sphere, the study of the apparent motion of the stars around the earth, the movement of the sun and planets, systems of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Tycho Brahe, the elliptical hypothesis Kepler, eclipses ...
The latest on the movement of light is an rare optical treatise in which Trabaud analysis properties of vision, reflection and refraction of light.
Rare set in uniform bindings of these works of Trabaud.
