Mathurin-Jacques Brisson - Traité élémentaire ou principes de physique - 1797

Mathurin-Jacques Brisson - Traité élémentaire ou principes de physique, Fondés sur les connoissances les plus certaines, tant anciennes que modernes, & confirmés par l'expérience - Seconde édition revue, corrigée et augmentée par l'auteur - Volume 2 only - à Paris, chez Bossange, Masson & Besson, 1797 - (2) ff., 372 pages, (19) ff. of plates - period full calfskin binding - octavo - 13 x 20 cm.

Condition: Missing headcap, 1 cracked joint, sound hinges, corners in good condition, smooth spine adorned with gilded fleurons and with a garnet morocco title label and a green morocco volume number label, some foxing and browning, marbled edges. This Volume 2 is complete.

Volume illustrated with 19 fold-out plates at the end.

Contents: Des fluides élastiques, de la nature & des propriétés du feu, des propriétés de l'eau, de la propagation de la lumière, etc.

Zoologist, naturalist and physicist, Brisson was a friend of Réaumur. He was undoubtedly the greatest ornithologist of his time. He abandoned this subject (due to quarrels with Buffon?) to devote himself to physics, where he succeeded Nollet at the Collège de Navarre.

Apart from the mentioned imperfections, this copy is in good condition.