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"BOSCOVICH (BOSCOVIC), ROGER JOSEPH (RUDJER J.). - GEOMETRICAL OPTICS AND THE RAINBOW.
Reference : 45083
(1760)
Extrait d'une Lettre du P. Boscovich, Jésuite, Correspondant de l'Academie, écrite à M. de Mairan.
(Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1760). 4to. Extract from ""Mémoires de Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans"", Tome III. Pp. 321-325. A faint dampstain to inner margins.
First apperance of Boskovic's paper in which he explains how light is refracted and reflected in droplets of water, creating the coloured rainbow - he discusses the sphericity in connection with both refraction and reflexion of light and he comments on Newton's optics.
Account of a new Micrometer and Megameter.
(London, J. Nichols, 1778). 4to. Extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Year 1777. Vol. 67 - Part II. Pp. 789-798.
First edition.
