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

Name: Charles Marie Valentin MONTIGNY • [The Great Discoveries Made in Physics Since the End of the Eighteenth Century. Address Delivered at the Public Session of 16 December 1882.] • Les Grandes découvertes faites en physique depuis la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Discours prononcé à la séance publique du 16 décembre 1882 • Autograph • 1882
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Author: Charles Marie Valentin MONTIGNY

[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

€450

⬨ 89330

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.