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Elements of natural philosophy

Fischer, Ernst Gottfried, 1754-1831, Biot, Jean-Baptiste, 1774-1862, Farrar, John, 1779-1853 · 1827 · Boston : Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins · 11 pictures

Fischer's physics textbook, routed through Biot's French edition and adapted by John Farrar for Harvard students, printed in Boston in 1827. The plates are dense sheets of numbered line engravings: biconvex and biconcave lenses in hatched section, ray paths crossing at focal points, prisms, inclined planes and pulley frames, all built from fine ruled lines and letter labels.

Physics

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