Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 450
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CHLADNI, ERNST FLORENS FRIEDRICH. Traité d'Acoustique. 8 folding engraved plates. [4], xxviii, 375 pages. Publisher's 48-page catalogue dated July 1809 bound at end. 8vo, contemporary 1/4 sheep gilt, spine rubbed. E. N. da C. Andrade bookplate. Paris, 1809

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first edition in french, translated by Chladni himself from his 1802 treatise on acoustics. "Chladni, professor of physics in Breslau, was the first to reduce the general association between vibration and pitch to a tabular basis and thus to lay the foundation of the modern science of acoustics"--Printing and the Mind of Man 233b (original edition in German). Bibliotheca Mechanica, page 71 (this edition); DSB III, 258-59.