L'Explication de l'arc-en-ciel, 1786.

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L'Explication de l'arc-en-ciel, 1786.

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This manuscript was presented to the Société Royale des Sciences de Montpellier, and endorsed as being received by them on 8 October 1786, for a prize in physics which the society was sponsoring on the question if the Newtonian explanation of rainbows was incontestable. Flaugergues' presentation won the prize. Included are numerous geometrical and other types of sketches.

1 v. (122 p.).

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Honoré Flaugergues was a French astronomer. From the description of L'Explication de l'arc-en-ciel, 1786. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122488698 ...