Ueber Das Farbige Licht Der Doppelsterne Und Einiger Anderer Gestirne Des Himmels Versuch Einer

by Christian Doppler

$65,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Prague: Borrosch & André, 1842. First edition, the separately issued offprint, dated a year before the journal volume in which the paper appeared, of the eighteen pages in which Christian Doppler stated the principle that bears his name — that the pitch of a sound and the colour of a light depend on how fast their source and their observer are moving towards or away from each other — and predicted on the last

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