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Solution générale du problème de la photographie des couleurs

Cros, Charles

Paris. Gauthier-Villars, Et au bureau du journal Les Mondes. 1869
Sold
First edition of Charles Cros' first book.

This copy with the printed price '1 Franc' not effaced; copies remained on sale with the publisher long after the date of publication and the original price was removed.

'Surtout connu comme poète ... cet esprit encyclopédique est aussi un savant, explorateur des mystères du cosmos, inventeur du phonographe et de photographie en couleurs. La plaquette reprend l'essentiel d'une communication faite à l'Académie des sciences (1867). Cros y ajoute cependant une nouveauté essentielle: la synthèse chromatique. A partir de ce moment, la photographie des couleurs est, au moins théoriquement trouvée ... Cros continua, jusqu'aux derniers mois de sa vie, des recherches qui obéissaient à la même passion que celle des Impressionistes pour la couleur.' (En français dans la texte, (Louis Forestier), 1990).

[En Français dans le Texte 292].
pp. 12. 8vo. Original publisher's printed wrappers, stitched as issued, in brown half-morocco marbled board folding case by Devauchelle.
#17548

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