Buy this book on-line ROCHON, Alexis [-Marie de] (1741-1817) : Extrait d'un ovrage sur la mesure des distances et des grandeurs des objets, par la double réfraction du cristal de roche, par Alexis Rochon, de l'Institut national et de l'Académie impériale de Pétersbourg[No pl., no publ., 1788.]
8vo, 21cm. Pp. 56, 1 letterpress table. Old plain wrappers, uncut. - Very rare, only two copies (in Paris libraries) are listed by WorldCat. De Rochon, a French astronomier, traveller and optician, invented and developed the Rochon prism, a polarizer and beamspilitter still in use and commercially available today. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of ROCHON, Alexis [-Marie de] (1741-1817) : Extrait d'un ovrage sur la mesure des distances et des grandeurs des objets, par la double réfraction du cristal de roche, par Alexis Rochon, de l'Institut national et de l'Académie impériale de Pétersbourg. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including antiquarian books, fine bindings, atlases, out-of-print books and rare books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |