Traité d’Optique: où l’on donne la Théorie de la Lumière dans le système Newtonien, avec de nouvelles solutions des principaux Problèmes de Dioptrique & de Catoptrique.

by Gaspard le Compasseur Courtivron

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Poggendorff, I, 489; D.S.B., III, p.454; Wallis, 220.7. Édition originale. Membre de l Académie des Sciences à partir de 1744, Courtivron (1710-1785) publia presque toutes ses œuvres dans les Mémoires de cette Académie ainsi que dans la Description des Arts et Métiers. « In his treatise on optics Courtivron assailed the Cartesian concept of light and championed the Newtonian. He did not servilely follow Newton, however, for his view color results from differences in speed rather than from those in weight. Furthermore, in affirming that dense mediums slow down light corpuscules, he made use of Fermat s principle of least time, recently revived by Maupertuis. » (D.S.B.). Bel exemplaire.

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