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"HAÜY, R.J. (RENÉ JUST).
Handbuch der Physik, für den Elementarunterricht in den französischen National-Lyceen ausgearbeitet. Aus dem Französischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen und Zusätzen vermehrt von Christian Samuel Weiss. Zweyter Band (von 2).
Leipzig, C.H. Reclam, 1805. Uncut and unopened in orig. boards. Tears to spine. Small stamp on titlepage. VIII,687 pp. and 16 engraved plates (numb. IX-XXIV).
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First German edition of ""Traité Élementaire de Physique..."", 1803. This second volume deals with electricity, magnetism, light, refraction, theory of colour, light and heat and optics.""This book was outstanding for its clear, methodological exposition of physics...Like most of his contemporaries Ha'uy adhered to Newton's corpuscular theory of light and to the theory of that heat was caused by 'caloric matter'""(DSB).
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