Music, first edition, 1802 | Die akustik. Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel, 1802. With handwritten inscription from 1812 by Schneevoogt.
by Chladni, Ernst Florens Friedrich
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Contemporary full calf leather with gilt ornamented spine and covers, and red morocco title shield. Both hinges partly broken. 4o: [2], xxxii, 304, [2], 305-310 pp. With engr. portrait on the titlepage by W. Bollinger, and 11 folding engraved plates. Good copy with a manuscript dedication. First edition of Chladni's pioneer work which established the science of acoustics. The first complete historical text on the subject, this text extended his earlier observations (1787) to include vibrating ellipses, semicircles, triangles and six-sided polygons. This copy of Chladni's masterpiece was a present given in 1812 to the Haarlem schoolmaster P.J. Prinsen by a pupil's father, Carl Gottfried Voorhelm Schneevoogt. B0141.
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- Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NL)
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- Title
- Music, first edition, 1802 | Die akustik. Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel, 1802. With handwritten inscription from 1812 by Schneevoogt.
- Author
- Chladni, Ernst Florens Friedrich
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
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