Photometria sive de mensura et gradibus luminis, colorum et umbrae

by Johann Heinrich Lambert

$80,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Augsburg: Christoph Peter Detleffsen for the widow of Eberhard Klett, 1760. First edition, very rare, and the finest copy we have seen, of the foundation work of photometry, the measurement of the intensity of light, both objectively and as perceived by the eye; this is one of the rarest of modern science books of this stature. Lambert’s discoveries “are of fundamental importance in astronomy, photography and

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