Theorie der Höfe, Nebensonnen und verwandter Phänomene mit Versuchen zur Bestätigung derselben. Offprint from Astronomische Abhandlungen (H. C. Schumacher, ed.), Drittes Heft.
[Altona: Hammerich- und Heineking’schen Buchdruckerey, 1825]. First edition, extremely rare separately-paginated offprint (journal pagination 31-92), inscribed by Fraunhofer to John Herschel, of this work on atmospheric optical phenomena, including haloes and parhelia. “Fraunhofer had carried out experiments in 1825 with diffraction in disordered small gaps and particles, and developed the..... More
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