BOUGUER

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BOUGUER
BOUGUER (Pierre). Traité d'optique sur la gradation de la Lumière... publié par l'abbé de la Caille... Paris, Guerin et Delatour, 1760, in-4, veau fauve de l'ép. dos à nerfs orné, coiffes us. xviii, [2], 368 pp. 7 planches dépliantes. Norman 283. Dict. of Scientific Biography 2, 344. Lalande 471. "Bouguer is regarded as the founder of photometry, the branch of optics concerned with measuring the intensity of light. His two most important contributions to the subject are contained in his "Essai".
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