Leges Oscillationis Oriundae Si Duo Corpora Diversa Celeritate Oscillantia Ita Conjunguntur Ut

by Wilhelm Weber

$9,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

One folding engraved plate some foxing & seven printed tables five in the text & two on a separate folding sheet . 2 p.l., 40 pp. Large 4to, orig. green patterned boards some foxing . Halle : G. Haack, 1827 . First edition, and a very evocative association copy, of the rare Habilitationschrift by Wilhelm Weber 1804-91 on acoustics, specifically on the acoustic coupling of tongue and air cavity in reed organ pipes; his work in this area led, in a

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