Sendschrieben uber die Electricitat an den herrn Grafen Algarotti

by Giovanni Bianconi

$675 · Offered by Martayan Lan

First German edition (translated from the 1748 French original) of Bianconi's letter addressed to Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764), author of Neutonismo per le donne (1733), which did much to popularize Newtonian views on optics on the continent and made him a European celebrity at the age of twenty-one. Algarotti also wrote..... More

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