CAUCHY, Augustian-Louis. La théorie de la lumière. 1830.
CAUCHY, Augustian-Louis.
La théorie de la lumière.
Paris, De Bure Frères, 1830.
8vo (221x139 mm), (2)-24-(2 bl.) pages.
Rare original edition of this first memory of Cauchy on the propagation of light.
references: DSB [III, p. 143 : Cauchy developed three different theories of reflection and refraction (1830, 1837, 1839) ... ... The problems were to explain double refraction (in which he succeded fairly well)"], Intersigne [cat 87], Jed Z. Buchwald [Chapter 22. Cauchy’s Theory of Dispersion Anticipated by Fresnel : "On June 7 and 14, 1830, Cauchy presented a comparatively short (given his customary standards) memoir on light before the Académie in Paris, which appeared thereafter in the Bulletin de Férussac; he also had it printed separately by de Bure Frères"], Académie des Sciences : [Compte rendu de la séance du 14 juin 1830 : "M. Cauchy présente imprimé le 'Mémoire sur la Théorie de la lumière' qu'il a lu à la dernière Séance"].
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