76/1729 Poincaré, H. Théorie mathématique de Lumière. II. Nouvelles études sur la Diffraction. Théorie de la dispersion de Helmholtz. Ed. M. Lamotte and D. Hurmuzescu. Paris, G. Carré, 1892, 1st ed., VI,310p., contemp. giltlettered hcl.

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= With the owner's entry of PIETER ZEEMAN on first free endpaper. Rare, separately published continuation of the earlier published first vol. of Poincaré's course on Théorie mathématique de Lumière, which was publ. in Paris in 1889 by the same publisher. "The development of mathematics in the nineteenth century began under the shadow of a giant, Carl Friedrich Gauss; it ended with the domination by a genius of similar magnitude, Henri Poincaré (...) For more than twenty years Poincaré lectured at the Sorbonne on mathematical physics; he gave himself to that task with his characteristic thoroughness and energy, with the result that he became an expert in practically all parts of theoretical physics, and published more than seventy papers and books on the most varied subjects, with a predilection for the Théories of light and of electromagnetic waves." (DSB XI, p.51, 58).