Einleitung in die Hohere Optik

Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1853. First Edition. Illustrated with 212 white-line wood engravings in the text and two folding engraved plates. Contemporary gilt sheep-backed buckram, marbled edges (damage to the crown of spine, edges rubbed). Old ownership inscription of H. Kobole. A little foxed and some quires coming away from the spine, but a good and complete copy. First Edition of this landmark treatise on optics that contains the first appearance of Beer's law, a standard of spectroscopy. The text is divided into two parts: the synthetic consideration of light movement in isotropic materials and an analytical and experimental justification of the laws of light movement in homogenous media.

August Beer (1825-1863) was a German physicist, chemist, and mathematician most remembered for his findings in the fields of light theory and electrostatics.

Poggendorff I:132.