Fuss – The invention of achromatic objective for microscopes – 1774
€3,600
Circa
1774
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Other
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FUSS (Nicolaï Ivanovitch), Instruction détaillée pour porter les lunettes de toutes les différentes espèces au plus haut degré de perfection dont elles sont susceptibles, tirée de la théorie dioptrique de Mr. Euler le père, et mise à la portée de tous les ouvriers en ce genre, Saint-Pétersbourg, imprimerie de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences, 1774.
Thick 4to of (10), 83, (1) pages and two folding plates ; contemprary calf (hinges and head restored).
Following Euler’s mathematical and theoretical work of 1747, Fuss’s text was the first to propose—in a practical and concrete manner—the use of a lens triplet for microscope objectives to correct chromatic aberration.
This text was directly drawn upon by the Chevaliers in 1823 for the invention, alongside Selligue, of the first achromatic microscope objective.
[are bound before]
-SMITH (Robert). Traité d’optique, Brest, Romain Malassis, Paris, Durand, 1767. XIII-(3), 739, (3), pages and 67 plates repliées
– [DUVAL LE ROY (Nicolas-Claude)], Supplément à l’optique de Smith, contenant une théorie générale des instrumens de dioptrique, Brest, R. Malassis, Paris, Durand, Jombert, 1783. (4), 189, (3), (1 leaf 177/178bis) and one plate.
A important texte in the history of optics for telescope and microscope and an exceptionnal sammelband.
Very rare.
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