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ALGAROTTI || DU PERRON DE CASTERA, Le Newtonianisme pour les dames, 1739
ALGAROTTI, Francesco || DU PERRON DE CASTERA, Louis Adrien.
Le Newtonianisme pour les dames, ou entretiens sur la lumière, sur les couleurs, et sur l'attraction.
Paris, Montalant, 1739.
Two 12mo (163x98 mm), lviii-278-(10) pages / (2)-308-(8) pages. binding : Contemporary full shepp, gilt-decorated spine in six compartments. Foxings. Frontflyleaf cut to delete an ex libris.
Second edition in french.
Algarotti is an Italian Lumières author, "he published, in Naples in 1737, a work popularizing Sir Isaac Newton's optics, Neutonianismo per le dame (Newtonianism for ladies), which was a great success2 in Europe This book marks the beginning of popular literature dedicated to women." (wikipedia).
Price : 250 €
European VAT number: FR87515091171
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