EULER, LEONHARD. - LIGHT REFRACTION AND THE WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT.

Expériences pour determiner la Refraction de toutes Sortes de Liqueurs transparantes.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1758). 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres". tome XI, 1756 pp. 235-266 and 1 folded engraved plate. Clean and fine.

First edition. In this memoir Euler records different experiments and their mathematical treatment with light refraction in liquids to follow up his own wave theory of light-refractions already put forward in 1746. - Enestrom: 234.

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