PAULIAN, Dictionnaire de physique, 1761

First edition.
The original edition of this encyclopedic dictionary by Aimé-Henri Paulian (1722-1801), a Jesuit priest and professor of physics at the College of Avignon.

The work was highly successful, seeing numerous re-editions throughout the 18th century. It is aimed at a general science audience, providing a didactic popularization of the knowledge of the time, particularly the Newtonian system, while covering a broad spectrum of topics from arithmetic to the "divining rod" and early balloon experiments.