Airy, George Biddell.

On the Undulatory Theory of Optics; Designed for the use of Students in the University

London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1866. A New Edition. Hardcover. 19.5 x 13 cm. viii 159pp, fold-out chart, 28pp ads. Originally published in 1831, this copy states that it is "a new edition" reprinting the essay from the Fourth Edition of "Mathematical Tracts". The cloth head of the spine is chipped off, a portion is laid-in. Gutters are weak but still holding. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper, physics professor and Newton scholar Alan Shapiro, and another name written on front free endpaper in an older hand, H. S. Hale | Christs' Coll. | Cambridge. Binding copy. Fair. Item #66892

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