[MICROSCOPY – RABIQUEAU, Charles.]
Manifeste littéraire, servant de supplément aux journaux sur le livre du Microscope Moderne, pour instruire le public, les amateurs, les savans, & vaincre le préjugé qui retarde les progrès des nouvelles découvertes.
Geneva and Paris, the author and Demonville, 1781.
8vo, pp. 15, [1 (errata)]; with further errata leaf tipped in after page 10; marginal browning, and paper repair to margin of A5, but otherwise clean and fresh; stitched as issued.
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Manifeste littéraire, servant de supplément aux journaux sur le livre du Microscope Moderne, pour instruire le public, les amateurs, les savans, & vaincre le préjugé qui retarde les progrès des nouvelles découvertes.
Only edition of this prospectus-cum-supplement to Le Microscope Moderne, an enthusiastic work promoting the use of microscopes by the popular scientist Charles Rabiqueau.
Rabiqueau was a lawyer turned lecturer in ‘occult physics’, popularising experiments with not only microscopy but also electricity and other optical instruments. In the present manifesto, he defends his work against the scientific establishment and the esprit de parti that ruled among French physicians. Le Microscope Moderne, Rabiqueau claims, is the ‘ouvrage le plus historique que nous ayons sur les connoissances de notre existence’; here, Rabiqueau summarises it, and explains the universal applicability of his microscopes, a mechanism which ‘trouvera de plus en plus des sectaires de la vérité’.
OCLC records copies at the Mazarine, BnF, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheek, and the Wellcome, with none outside Europe.
