INVESTIGATION OF THE CAUSE OF THAT INDISTINCTNESS OF VISION WHICH HAS BEEN ASCRIBED TO THE SINALLNESS OF THE OPTIC PENCIL
The Royal Society, 1786. Octavo, pages 499-508. In Good plus condition. Disbound from original text. Tearing to spine from disbinding. Textblock has light age toning and foxing to pages. Horology Binder, Room A Ephemera.
1380014
Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $50
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From the collection of Silvio Bedini. Bedini spent twenty five years at the Smithsonian Institution, serving as curator in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in the new Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) before serving as first Assistant Director then Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. He then served as Keeper of Rare Books at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, before becoming a Historian Emeritus. He specialized in early scientific instruments.