NOLLET, Jean-Antoine. L'art des expériences, ou avis aux amateurs de la physique, sur le choix, la construction et l'usage des instruments; sur la préparation et l'emploi des drogues qui servent aux expériences. 1770.
NOLLET, Jean-Antoine.
L'art des expériences, ou avis aux amateurs de la physique, sur le choix, la construction et l'usage des instruments; sur la préparation et l'emploi des drogues qui servent aux expériences.
Paris, P. E. G. Durand, 1770.
Three 12mo (166x96 mm), vol. 1: xxiv-509-(1) pages and 13 plates / vol. 2: (4)-552 pages and 23 plates / vol. 3: (2)-524-(4)-10 pages and 20 plates. 56 folding plates in total. binding : Contemporary full mottled calf, spine gilt in six compartments, title and volume number in gilt on lettering-pieces, red edges. Corners and one cap chipped. A minor tear with a lack of few letters on pages 467-468 of volume 3.
First edition. Second issue with new title page "Seconde edition".
Fine copy.
Book on the manufacture of scientific instruments for all kinds of physical experiments.
The first volume deals with the production of mathematical instruments, the choice and preparation of drugs, and the preparation and use of various varnishes for wood and metals.
In the second volume deals with various experimental physics experiments are described.
The last volume is about particular opinions on the experiences of the lessons contained in previous volumes.
Nollet spent a lot of time on electricity and became one of the authorities of his time. ["Nollet became the chief of the European electricians" (DSB, X p. 146)].
references: DSB [X, p.145 : "his last work ' L'art des expériences ' (1770) offers the "amateur of physics" the distillation of forty years of attentionto the "choice, construction, and use of instruments.""].
provenance: Augustus Lutaud (bookplate, Auguste Lutaud (1847-1925) was a gynaecologist, writer and French traveller)).
Price : 500 €
