Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1983. Hardcover. First Edition. First English Translation Edition. Considerable wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small losses at edges and front flap of spine. Clean within.
Prepared for the 100th anniversary of Einstein's birth to present the views of Russian scientists and philosophers about Einstein's concepts and philosophy. Very Good / good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1883. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [2], vii, [1]-842 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
First photographs of the solar spectrum in the infrared. "Extending his interests to spectroscopy, Abney was the first to suggest (1877) that stars with rapid axial rotation could be detected by broadened lines in their spectra - an idea later to have wide application. He then devised a red-sensitive emulsion and with it made the first spectroscopic analyses of the structure of organic molecules (1882) and the first photographs of the solar spectrum in the infrared (1887)." "Abney..... More
London: Royal Society of London, 1853. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [1]-566, [1]-15 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Adams corrects Pierre-Simon Laplace's (1749-1827) earlier equations for the moon's motion. Also contains William Thomson's "On the Thermal Effects of Fluids in Motion" (Volume 143 pp. 357-365, 1853) and George Gabriel Stokes' "On the Change of Refrangibility of Light.- No. II" (pp.385-386). Very Good. More
Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1959/1982. Wraps. First Edition. 485-764, 1443-1506 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are clean and crisp. First volume has a red ink library stamp on the cover. Housed in a custom black cloth folio with gold embossed tilting to spine.
The Aharonov-Bohm effect is the quantum mechanical phenomenon that allows a charged particle to be affected by an electromagnetic field that does not exist in the vicinity of the particle, one of the stranger manifestations of quantum mechanics. This set contains the paper that predicted and described this phenomenon (first paper, 1959) and the paper that described the verification of the Aharonov-Bohm effect through the use of electron holography (second paper, 1982). Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1856. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [3], v, [1]-951 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Airy determines the mean density of the earth. Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches--Thirtieth Series" (pp. 159-180); William Thomson's "The Bakerian Lecture. On the Electro-dynamic Qualities of Metals" (pp. 649-751); and William Andrews' "On the Constitution and Properties of Ozone" (pp. 1-13). Very Good. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885. Hardcover. First Edition. vi, [1], 206, [2] pp ads. Green cloth covered boards with gold and dark red embossed tilting and decoration to spine and front cover board. Light scuffing to boards from shelf wear, bumping to corners. Previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown and second free endpaper, clean within.
Part of the "English Worthies" Series edited by Andrew Lang. Very Good. More
Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1953. Wraps. First Edition. 1331-1671 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps with chipping and wear to covers and spine, 2" horizontal tear at midpoint of cover from right edge. First page has a 3" piece missing from the lower right corner, does not impact major article. Otherwise clean within.
Paper is the first to mention the "horizon" problem in cosmology. Very Good. More
Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1949. Wraps. First Edition. 995-1113 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are quite clean inside and out, very minor age toning to spine, small chips at head and foot.
In this paper, Alpher and Herman predict the temperature of what is now known as the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB) to be 5 degrees K. Sixteen years later the CMB was discovered with a temperature of 2.7 degrees K. Very Good. More
Paris: Gabriel Martin, Jean Baptiste Coignard, Hippolyte Guerin, 1730. Hardcover. First Edition. [5], 395, 4to. Brown paper over boards binding that is relatively recent, five raised bands at spine, number "1705" written in ink on spine -- appears as though the binder wanted to mimic an early vellum binding. Green ribbon marker bound in. Pages clean, worm holes along upper right margin of entire text block but not unnecessarily distracting. Text in French.
Amonton's first report of his inventiions of the sea and mercury barometers. Also, his paper on how one determines abolute zero temperature. Very Good. More
Paris: 1816, 1816. Hardcover. First Edition. 452, 440, 448 pp. 8vo. Volumes I & II have blue paper boards with a brown tape spine; Volume III has the same brown paper spine, but with brown leather covers, also has marbled endpapers. Light scuffing from shelf wear. Clean within. Numerous plates and illustrations, some folding. Text in French.
André Ampère (1775–1836) classified the 48 known elements into three major families (gaxolytes, leucolytes and chriocolytes) that he further divided into 15 “genres,” based on “analogies” between the elements, chemical properties that seemed related to one another. He did this in three papers in this multi-volume set: Also contains Augustin Fresnel's “Mémoire sur la diffraction de la lumière, où l’on examine particulièrement le phénomènes des franges..... More
London: Royal Society of London, 1869. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, v, [4], [4], 28, [1]-812 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Thomas Andrews' (1813-1885) paper explaining his discovery of the "critical point," the temperature above which no gas can be liquified by any pressure. Also contains J. Norman Lockyer's "Spectroscopic Observations of the Sun. -- No. II" (pp. 425-444). Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1856. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [3], v, [1]-951 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Thomas Andrews (1813-1885) shows that ozone is oxygen in allotropic form. Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches--Thirtieth Series" (pp. 159-180); G. B. Airy's "Account of Pendulum Experiments Undertaken in the Harton Colliery, for the Purpose of Determining the Mean Density of the Earth" (Volume 146 pp. 297-355, 1856); and William Thomson's "The Bakerian Lecture. On the Electro-dynamic Qualities of Metals" (pp. 649-751). Very Good. More
New York: Leonard Scott Publishing Company, 1867. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. 282, 282 pp. 4to. Three quarter leather binding with light tan corners and spine, gold embossed titling on dark black and dark red patches, five raised bands. Marbled paper insets to front and rear boards, marbled endpapers. Clean within.
Fleeming Jenkin (1833-1885) was an English engineer and scientist who discovered and exposed an error in Darwin's statement of his Theory of Evolution. Not knowing about genetics, Darwin believed that evolution took place through the "blending" of inherited characteristics. Jenkin showed that this blending would lead to the inability of individual mutations to survive in the population. Very Good. More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1899. Hardcover. First Edition. 1341 pp. 4to. Blue cloth board library binding with gold embossed titling, call numbers pasted to spine. Ink library stamp on title page of volume, clean within. Text in French.
The Gibbs–Appell equations of motion, developed independently by American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) and French mathematician Paul Appell (1855–1930), greatly improve upon the Lagrangian differential equations of motion for systems with multiple constraints and degrees of freedom. Very Good. More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1920. Hardcover. First Edition. vii, [1], 704 pp. 8vo. 15 Plates . Original brown library bindings with gold embossed titling to spine. Blind embossed library stamp on first free endpaper along with an ink WITHDRAWN stamp, blind embossed library stamp on title page; due date sheet tipped onto last page of volume, very clean within.
Aston's description of his early experiments demonstrating the "whole number rule" in which he determined that the precise atomic weight of a number of isotopes is based on whole number multiples of the mass of a hydrogen atom. Aston received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1922 for his creation of the whole number rule. Fine. More
Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1953. Wraps. First Edition. 215-546 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps with small chip at base of spine. Very clean and crisp within.
Derives and explains the relativistic Lamb Shift. Very Good. More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1907. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. vii, [1], 792 pp. 8vo. 17 Plates tipped in at rear. Original brown three quarter leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy and black title patches with gold embossed titling, gold lines offsetting bands, marbled paper insets to front and rear boards. Scuffing and wear to leather. Blind embossed library stamp on first free endpaper along with an ink WITHDRAWN stamp, blind embossed library stamp on title page, center missing resulting in round hole in page; due date sheet tipped onto last page of volume, very clean within.
Barkla & Sadler's experiment investigated the excitation of secondary x-rays which led to the underlying theories supporting the isotope theory. Barkla was awarded the 1917..... More
London: Royal Society of London, 1831. Wraps. First Edition. Article has been extracted from the original volume. 99-108 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy.
In 1831, shortly after Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted (1777–1851) discovered electromagnetism, English mathematician and physicist Peter Barlow (1776 –1862) carried out an experiment that demonstrated that an electrical phenomenon could produce the earth’s magnetic field. This was the first precursor to the current dynamo theory of geomagnetism. Fine. More
London: Watts & Co., 1953. Hardcover. First Edition. xi, 131 pp. 8vo. Light scuffing to dust jacket, soiling and sunning to spine, short closed tear at base of front panel, small loss at head and foot of spine, now in mylar cover. Very Good / good. More
Placitas, NM: Genetics Heritage Press, 1996. Hardcover. As. Facsimile Edition of 1902 Cambridge University Press Edition. xiv, [1], 212 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to covers, encased in custom mylar dust jacket. Ex-libary with library stamp on first free endpaper and across top of text block. Slight water stain at lower right corner of text block and front and rear pastedowns. Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1857. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [8], [1]-906, [1], 19 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound. Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1844. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. viii, [1], 328, 28 pp. 4to. Recent brown three quarter leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy title patch with gold embossed titling, gold lines offsetting bands, decorative stamp in each compartment without titling, blind embossed borders to front and rear boards. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. A cellophane tape repair on recto and verso, upper right corner, of title page. Pages were trimmed when rebound.
Boole's paper "On A General Method of Analysis" was a building block in the theory of linear differential equations, moving on to variable coefficients. Parsons' paper expands on his 1840 paper that identified the spiral nebulae and is illustrated with..... More
London: Royal Society of London, 1841. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1], [1]-10, [1]-312, [12] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Also contains Gideon Algernon Mantell's: "Memoir on a portion of the lower jaw of the Iguanodon, and on the remains of the Hylæosaurus and other Saurians, discovered in the Strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex" (pp. 131-151). Very Good. More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1890. Wraps. First Edition. 1172 pp. 4to. Wear and cuffing to original light salmon colored wraps. Original paper label pasted to spine with Volume # and year handwritten in black ink. Clean within, most pages uncut. Text in French. Housed in custom protective chemise with gold embossed titling to spine.
Edouard Branly (1844-1940) demonstrates the first sensitive device for detecting radio waves, later named the "coherer." Very Good. More
Edinburgh, Scotland: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824. Wraps. First Edition. 8 [advertisement], iv, [206]-392 pp. 8vo. 8 plates. Original paper wraps with wear and considerable chipping at edges, majority of spine paper missing, still tight with no loose pages.
David Brewster (1781-1868) was best know for his work in the field of optics. This paper details his experiments in double refraction which led to the discovery of the Photoelastic Effect. Double refraction, or birefringence, is where light splits and takes two slightly different paths through a material. Good. More
