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Venezia, Tipografia Remondiniana, 1763. In 4°. Frontespizio stampato in rosso e nero con vignetta calcografica, 4 tavole incise in rame fuori testo, legatura coeva in cartonato, dorso manoscritto con qualche abrasione.
Bell'esemplare in barbe della terza edizione - e prima veneziana - dell'opera fondamentale di Boscovich in cui precorre la moderna teoria atomica. "Boskovich's theory influenced the position of nineteenth-century field physics with regard to the relations between space and matter; it was employed by Faraday and Kelvin, and J. J. Thomson used its curve of forces to introduce the earliest concepts of atomic physics" (Norman 277 per la prima edizione); Riccardi I, 180.
Bell'esemplare in barbe della terza edizione - e prima veneziana - dell'opera fondamentale di Boscovich in cui precorre la moderna teoria atomica. "Boskovich's theory influenced the position of nineteenth-century field physics with regard to the relations between space and matter; it was employed by Faraday and Kelvin, and J. J. Thomson used its curve of forces to introduce the earliest concepts of atomic physics" (Norman 277 per la prima edizione); Riccardi I, 180.
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