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Pierre Bouguer's Optical Treatise on the Gradation of Light

Pierre Bouguer's Optical Treatise on the Gradation of Light

Middleton, W. E. K.

Paperback

Series: Heritage

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ISBN10: 1487578989
ISBN13: 9781487578985
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1961
Pages: 265
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In 1760 the first edition of the Traite d'optique sur la gradation de la lumiere of Pierre Bouguer was published posthumously. Bouguer (1698-1758), French mathematician, professor of hydrography, and author of works on the theory of navigation, can also be considered the inventor of photometry, and the Traite was his definitive word on the subject. It has become one of the classic treatises of science, but even in French has long been unavailable. The last part of the work is remarkable for having anticipated the modern theory of the visibility of objects in a horizontal direction through the atmosphere.

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