MÖBIUS, AUGUST FERDINAND

Kurze Darstellung der Haupt-Eigenschaften eines Systems von Linsengläsern.

(Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1830) 4to. As extracted, without backstip. In ""Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik", 5 band. Fine and clean. Pp. 113-32.

First printing. In the 1820s, yet another pupil of Gauss, August Ferdinand Mobius (1790-1868), also developed an interest in geometrical optics, but the papers that he devoted to the subject were also very much part of the eighteenth-century tradition of dioptrics and catoptrics. Taking the basics of this kind of optics for granted, he concentrated on the simplification of the calculations involved [The present paper]. (Atzema "ALL PHENOMENA OF LIGHT THAT DEPEND ON
MATHEMATICS").

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