Charles Marie Valentin MONTIGNY
Les Grandes découvertes faites en physique depuis la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Discours prononcé à la séance publique du 16 décembre 1882
[The Great Discoveries Made in Physics Since the End of the Eighteenth Century. Address Delivered at the Public Session of 16 December 1882.]
F. Hayez • |Brussels 1882|14.2 x 20.5 cm|Broché
First edition, printed in very small numbers, of this offprint from the Bulletins de l'Académie royale de Belgique, 3rd series, vol. IV, no. 12.
No copy in the CCF. A single copy in Worldcat.
Traces of a label and of a distribution stamp in the left margin of the upper cover, a few small spots of foxing.
The physicist Charles Montigny (1819-1890) was director of the science section of the Académie royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles, of which he had been a member since 1867.
Inscribed by Charles Montigny to Admiral Ernest Mouchez (1821-1892), a specialist in hydrological and astronomical observations, director of the Paris Observatory from 1878.
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