‎Sciences naturelles‎

‎"BARTHOLIN, RASMUS.‎

‎De Naturae Mirabilibus. Quaestiones Academicae. - [ON THE WONDERS OF NATURE]‎

‎Hafniae (Copenhagen), Petrus Haubold, 1674. 4to. Contemporary full mottled calf with five raised bands to richly gilt spine. Upper and lower part of spine worn and restored. Some overall wear and a bit of worming. Internally evenly browned. Contemporary notes in neat hand to front free end-paper and additional information about contents in same hand to title-page. Title-page printed in red/black. (8), 200 pp. + engraved plate depicting snow crystals.‎

‎Exceedingly scarce first edition of this collection of 13 academic treatises on the wonders of nature. This magnificent work, by one of the greatest Danish polymaths of all time, epitomizes the the range of topics on which Bartholin wrote. Among the essays and lectures collected here, we have ""The study of the Danish language"" (1657)"" ""The shape of snow"" (1660)"" ""The pores of bodies"" (1663)"" ""On Cartesian physics"" (1664)"" ""On nature"" (1666)"" ""On judgement and memory"" (1667)"" ""On experiment"" (1668)"" ""On physical hypotheses"" (1669)"" ""On the shape of bodies"" (1671)"" ""Secrets of the sciences"" (1673).Rasmus Bartholin (also known in the latinized form Erasmus Bartholinus) (1625 - 1698) was a famous Danish scientist, physician and grammarian, famous primarily for his discovery ) of the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar (calcite), for writing the first grammar of the Danish language, and for his work on Descartes' analytic geometry.""Erasmus Bartholin's father was Caspar Berthelsen Bartholin... There were six sons in the family, and Erasmus had a brother, Thomas Bartholin, who was nine years older than himself. These two brothers went on to become equally famous. Erasmus received his first education from private tutors, then he attended a Latin school. He entered the University of Copenhagen in 1642, receiving his B.A. in 1644 and an M.A. in 1647. From 1645 he studied mathematics at the University of Leiden, travelling to France in 1651 but then going to Italy where he studied at a number of places including Padua from where he received a medical degree in 1654. From 1656 he was professor of geometry at the University of Copenhagen but transferred to become an extraordinary professor of medicine in the following year. In 1671 he was appointed to an ordinary chair of medicine at Copenhagen, a post to held until his death. In 1667 he was appointed Royal Mathematician.He served the University of Copenhagen as dean of the faculty of medicine, librarian, and rector, and was appointed royal physician and privy councillor.Despite being professor of medicine for a long period, he wrote relatively little on that topic. In terms of the number of publications, mathematics was the largest part of his work, but his work in this area is not of great importance. In fact he is best known for work in yet another area, for he was the discoverer of the double refraction of light. Bartholin edited Introduction to the geometry of Descartes by van Schooten and also translated Optics of Larissa into Latin. Every year between 1664 and 1674 he produced a book Dissertatio de problematibus geometricis. This consisted of theses which he had proposed for his students to defend. In the sixth such book, published in 1672, he gave a proof of what is known as the second problem of Debeaune, formulated in a letter to Mersenne written in 1638. The problem is the first example of an inverse tangent problem which in modern notation results in requiring the solution to the differential equation dy/dx = (x - y)/a, y(0) = 0.This has solution y = x + a(e-x/a - 1). Descartes solved Debeaune's problem in 1639. Bartholin considered the problem in geometric form. Pedersen suggests that Bartholin's proof may actually be Debeaune's original proof which we know he sent to Descartes. Bartholin could well have come across the proof in papers which Debeaune sent him for safe keeping shortly before his death in 1652. To see the range of topics on which Bartholin wrote, consider his book De naturae mirabilibus quaestiones academicae which he published in 1674. This consists of essays and lectures written over a number of years such as: The study of the Danish language (1657)" The shape of snow (1660) The pores of bodies (1663) On Cartesian physics (1664) On nature (1666) On judgement and memory (1667) On experiment (1668) On physical hypotheses (1669) On the shape of bodies (1671)" and Secrets of the sciences (1673). Bartholin wrote a large number of mathematical works but he is best remembered for his discovery of the double refraction of light through a crystal of Iceland spar which had been gathered in an expedition to Iceland in 1668. He wrote his text Experimenta crystalli Islandici disdiaclastici quibus mira & insolita refractio detegitur on the geometry of crystals in 1669. The two rays he called solita and insolita and he showed that both were produced by refraction. During his experiments, Bartholin also observed that when the crystals of Iceland spar are rotated about their axis, one of the two images moves in a circle around the other. This is strong evidence that the crystals are somehow splitting the light into two different beams. Bartholin's explanation was based on Descartes' theory of light along with his idea that there were two sets of ""pores"" in the crystal. However, the true explanation is that the crystal splits the light into two plane-polarized beams. He observed the comets of 1664 and 1665, and made other astronomical observations, publishing his descriptions of these events in De cometis anni 1664 et 1665 opusculum (1665). Bartholin also prepared for publication the observations of Tycho Brahe. In both these pieces of work in astronomy he was assisted by Ole Romer. Bartholin is also famed for his medical work, in particular his introduction of quinine in the fight against malaria. Some of his medical contributions were made in conjunction with his brother Thomas Bartholin who was a professor of anatomy at the University of Copenhagen from 1646 to 1661. Thomas Bartholin founded the journal Acta medica et philosophica Hafniensia to which Erasmus Bartholin contributed papers."" (J J O'Connor and E F Robertson, St. Andrews). Thesaurus: 348.‎

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‎"BALLOONING - PICCARD, A.‎

‎Professor Piccards Forschungsflug in der Stratosphäre. Verlau der Stratosphärenfluges und dessen wissenschaftlichen Ergebnis. Mit beiträgen von A. Piccard, P. Kipfer und anderen Sachverständigen. Herausgegeben von der Neuen Augsburger Zeitung.‎

‎Augsburg, Haas & Grabherr, 1931. Contemp. hcloth. 2 portraits as frontispieces. 128 pp., 50 illustrations after photographs on plates at end. Clean and fine.‎

‎"BEECHY, F.W.‎

‎Report of further Observations upon the Tidal Streams of the North Sea and English Channel, with Remarks upon the Laws by which those Streams appear to be governed. Communicated to Francis Beaufort. received March 27, - Read May 15, 1851.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor, 1851). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1851 - Part II. Pp. 703-718 a. 12 folded plans and maps.‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 45968

‎"BJERKNES, VILHELM.‎

‎Die Atmosphäre als zirkularer Wirbel. Wellentheorie der Zyklonen und Antizyklonen.‎

‎Leipzig-München, Keim und Nemnich, 1922. 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint/Sonderabdruck from ""Ergebnisse der aerologischen Tagung vom 3. bis 6 Juli 1921 im Preussischen Aeronautischen Observatorium Lindenberg"". 37 pp.‎

‎First edition, offprint issue by one of the true pioneers of meteorology, often called ""the father of modern meteorology"". According to Arnt Eliassen, ""He (Bjerknes) put forward the view that weather forecasting should be dealt with as an initial value problem of mathematical physics and carried out by numerical or graphical integration of the governing equations. This is nothing more than treating the atmosphere as a physical system, but at the time it was a revolutionary idea.""‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 52702

‎"BJERKNES, VILHELM und H. SOLBERG.‎

‎Zellulare Trägheitswellen und Turbulenz.‎

‎Oslo, Dybwad, 1929. Orig. printed wrappers. ""Avhandlinger utgitt av Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi"". Matem.-Naturvid. Klasse, 1929. No. 7. 29 pp.‎

‎First edition by one of the true pioneers of meteorology, often called ""the father of modern meteorology"". According to Arnt Eliassen, ""He (Bjerknes) put forward the view that weather forecasting should be dealt with as an initial value problem of mathematical physics and carried out by numerical or graphical integration of the governing equations. This is nothing more than treating the atmosphere as a physical system, but at the time it was a revolutionary idea.""‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 52704

‎"BJERKNES, VILHELM.‎

‎Die Atmosphäre als zirkularer Wirbel. Wellentheorie der Zyklonen und Antizyklonen.‎

‎Leipzig-München, Keim und Nemnich, 1922. 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint/Sonderabdruck from ""Ergebnisse der aerologischen Tagung vom 3. bis 6 Juli 1921 im Preussischen Aeronautischen Observatorium Lindenberg"". 37 pp.‎

‎"BUYS-BALLOT, C.H.D. - BUYS BALLOT'S LAW.‎

‎Note sur le rapport de l'intensité et de la direction du vent avec les écarts simultanés du baromètre.‎

‎(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1857. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 45, No 19. Pp. (705-) 783. (Entire issue offered). Buys-Ballot's paper: pp. 765-768.‎

‎"CHUN, CARL. (HRSG.).‎

‎Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer ""Valdivia"" 1898-1899. Im Auftrage des Reichsamtes des Innern. Erster Band: Oceanographie und maritime Meteorologie. 2 Bde. (Text + Atlas).‎

‎Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1902. Large 4to. 2 orig. clothbacked boards. Stamp on title-page. (10),XII,404 pp., textillustrations. + Atlas with 40 large folded plates (many in colour, maps, tables etc.). Internally fine and clean.‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 54077

‎"COTTE, (LOUIS). - A PIONEER-WORK IN METEOROLOGY.‎

‎Mémoire sur la Météorologie, qui contient l'extrait des Observations Météorologiques, faites à Paris pendent dix ans, depuis le i. er Janvier 1763.jusu'au 31 Décembre 1772, par M. Messier de l'Academie..., avec une Méthode pour analyser ces sortes...‎

‎(Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1776). 4to. Extracts from ""Mémoires de Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans"", Année 1773. Pp. 427-502, 16 tables in the text. Clean and fine.‎

‎"DALTON, JOHN.‎

‎New Theory of the Constitution of mixed Gases elucidated. (November 1802 - Communicated by the Author).‎

‎London, Printed for Alexander Tilloch,1802. 8vo. Contemp. blue boards. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spine slightly rubbed. In: ""The Philosophical Magazine. By Alexander Tilloch"", Vol. IV. Engraved portrait (Richard Kirwan). 380 pp. a. 6 engraved plates. Dalton's paper: pp. 169-173.‎

‎"DOVE, H.W. - DOVE'S LAW.‎

‎Ueber den Einfluss der Drehung der Erde auf die Strömungen ihrer Atmosphäre.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1835. Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff"", Bd. 36, No 11. Pp. (321-) 504. (Entire issue offered). Dove's paper: pp. 321-351.‎

‎"Grimard (Ed;)"‎

‎Le tour du monde d'un naturaliste. Le jardin d'acclimatation.‎

‎Paris Bibliothèque d'éducation et de récréation J.Hetzel, éditeur. sd 392p 1 volume IN8. Reliure d'époque en demi chagrin rouge.Dos à nerfs orné et titré. Tranches dorées.Ouvrage orné d'illustrations h.t par benett et in-texto parLallemand et divers.‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 200823

‎"L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES - KÖNIGLICHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN IN PARIS.‎

‎Der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Paris Physische Abhandlungen. Erster- (Sechster Theil). Aus dem Französischen übersetzet von Wolf Balth. Adolph von Steinwehr. (Umfasst: 1. Theil 1692. 1693. 1699-1702. - 2. Theil 1703-1706. - 3. Theil 1707-1...‎

‎Breslau, Johann Jacob Korn, 1748-51. Large 8vo. Uncut in mounted orig. marbled wrappers, all 6 volumes later clotbacked. Wear to wrappers. Stamps on titlepages. Ca. 5000 pp. (each vol. separately paginated). Textillustrations and 104 engraved plates, some folding.Title-pages browned and brownspotted. Some browning and brownspots throughout.‎

‎Scarce first German translation of the pysical memoirs from the ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences"", containing many importent papers by the leading French scientists: Amontons, Cassini, Bernoulli, Homberg, Lemery, la Hire, Reaumur, Tournefort, Maraldi, Delisle etc. etc.Of special importence are GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ: ""Erklärung der Arithmetica binaria, die sich nur der Charakteren 0 und I bedienet, nebst Anmerkungen von ihrem Nutzen und dem verstande, den sie den alten chinesischen Figuren des Fohi giebt."", pp. 88-93 (Bd. II). Leibniz' BINARY NUMBER SYSTEM, first published 1703. And JACOB (JACQUES) CASSINI ""Abhandlung von der Grösse und Figur der Erde"", pp. 431-756 and 14 engraved plates and maps.Poggendorff II, 1000‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 51397

‎"MANN, THEOD. AUG.‎

‎A Treatise on Rivers and Canals. Communicated by Joseph Banks. Read June 24, 1779.‎

‎(London, J. Nichols, 1779). 4to. Extract from ""Philosophical Transactions, of the Royal Society of London."" Vol. 69, Year 1779 - Part II. Pp. 555-658.‎

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‎"ORMSBY, W.L.‎

‎A Description of Present System of Bank Note Engraving, Showing its Tendency to Facilitate Counterfeiting: To which is added A New Mathod of Constucting Bank Notes to Prevent Forgery. - [THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK ON US PAPER MONEY]‎

‎New York, Ormsby, 1852. Folio. Original illustrated, richly gilt boards with a large gilt centre resembling a guilloche-gravure. Blindstamped corner-ornamentations and gilt lettering to boards as well. Old owner's inscription of ""Nissen & Parker/ 43 Mark Lane"" to front free end-paper and with a gift-inscription from H N Nissen, dated 1867, to first blank. VIII, 102 pp. + 13 engraved plates (including frontispiece, which is ""PLATE 5"") - complete. The 13 finely engraved plates demonstrate different technologies and depict bank notes, vignettes, and various design elements.‎

‎"PHILLIPS, NORMAN A.‎

‎The general circulation of the atmosphere: a numerical experiment. [Extracted from: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Vol. 82 No. 352, April 1956]. - [THE FIRST SUCCESFUL CLIMATE MODEL]‎

‎(London, Royal Meteorological Society, 1956). 8vo. Extracted and with a nice marbled paper-backstrip (kind of representing the elements). Damp-staining to lower part of leaves. Pp. 123-164. Illustrated.‎

‎First printing of Phillips' seminal paper, in which he presents for the first time his mathematical model that could realistically depict monthly and seasonal patterns in the troposphere. This became became the first successful general circulation model of climate (GCM). ""Numerical models (General Circulation Models or GCMs), representing physical processes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and land surface, are the most advanced tools currently available for simulating the response of the global climate system to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. While simpler models have also been used to provide globally - or regionally-averaged estimates of the climate response, only GCMs, possibly in conjunction with nested regional models, have the potential to provide geographically and physically consistent estimates of regional climate change which are required in impact analysis...GCMs depict the climate using a three dimensional grid over the globe, typically having a horizontal resolution of between 250 and 600 km, 10 to 20 vertical layers in the atmosphere and sometimes as many as 30 layers in the oceans."" (IPCC - International Panel on Climate Change). In 1956, Norman Phillips developed a mathematical model that could realistically depict monthly and seasonal patterns in the troposphere, thus revolutionizing weather and climate change predition. It became the first successful climate model. Following Phillips' work, several groups began working to create GCMs that are now essential to predict climate change. ""Steady improvements to short-range NWP accrued during the early 1950s, in large part due to more realistic models that accounted for energy conversion in extratropical cyclones. Encouraged by the success of these forecasts, IAS team member Norman Phillips began to contemplate longer-range prediction using the IAS computer. His work took the form of a numerical simulation of the atmosphere's general circu lation for a period of 1 month. The work was completed in 1955 and Phillips communicated the results to von Neumann, who immediately recognized their significance. Von Neumann hastily arranged a conference in October 1955, Application of Numerical Integration Techniques to the Problem of the General Circulation, held at Princeton University. In his opening statement at the conference, von Neumann said I should like to make a few general remarks concerning the problem of forecasting climate fluctuations and the various aspects of the general circulation that cause such fluctuations. Specifically, I wish to point out that the hydro-dynamical and computational efforts which have been made in connection with the problem of short-range forecasting serve as a natural introduction to an effort in this direction . . . With this philosophy in mind, we held our first meeting nine years ago at the Institute for Advanced Study to discuss the problem of short-range weather prediction. Since that time, a great deal of progress has been made in the subject, and we feel that we are now prepared to enter into the problem of forecasting the longer period fluctuations of the general circulation. (von Neumann 1955, 9-10) Following this conference, which highlighted his numerical experiment, Phillips entered the research into competition for the first Napier Shaw Memorial Prize, a prize honoring England's venerated leader of meteorology, Sir Napier Shaw (1854-1945), on the occasion of the centenary of his birth (the competition was announced in April 1954). The subject for the first competition was ""the energetics of the atmosphere."" On 20 June 1956, ""the adjudicators recommended that the prize be given to Norman A. Phillips of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A. for his essay 'The general circulation of the atmosphere: a numerical experiment,' which had been published in the Quarterly Journal [of the Royal Meteorological Society] (82, p. 1230) [April 1956] ..."" (Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 1956b)"" (Lewis: Clarifying the Dynamics of the General Circulation: Phillips's 1956 Experiment).‎

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‎"PUISSANT, L.‎

‎Traité de Géodésie, ou Exposition des Méthodes Trigonométriques et Astronomiques, applicables a la Mesure de la terre, et la Construction du Canevas des Cartes Topographiques. Troisieme ed. 2 vols.‎

‎Paris, 1842. 4to. a. Atlas-vol in folio. 3 cont.hcalf. XVI,515,XII,496,XXXII pp. and Atlas with 14 mounted engr.plates, chiefly showing Geodetic instruments. Slightly brownspotted. Stamp.on title. - ""Puissant avait une prédilection toute particuliere pour la Geodesie, dont on peut dire qu'il fut pendent un demisiecle le represéntent le plus eminent"" (Biogr.Gén.).‎

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‎"RASK, RASMUS.‎

‎Den ældste Hebraiske Tidsregning indtil Moses, efter Kilderne på ny bearbejdet og forsynet med et Kårt over Paradis. - [PRESENTATION COPY.]‎

‎København, Schultz, 1828. 8vo. Uncut in the original blank blue front wrapper (later back wrapper). Wrappers loose. Somewhat brownspotted. Inscribed by the author to the inside of front wrapper: ""Velærværdige / Hr. Pastor Westergård / med en venskabelig Hilsen / fra / Forfatteren."" (Pastor Westergård, friendly regards from the author). 16,139,(1) pp. + 1 engaved folded plate.‎

‎Presentation copy of the first edition of Rask's 'Hebrew Chronology'. The present copy is inscribed to the renowned Danish linguist and orientalist Niels Ludvig Westergaard (1815-1878). Hjelmslev I, 130.‎

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‎"ROCHAS Albert De;"‎

‎L'extériorisation de la motricité.‎

‎Recueil d'expériences et d'observations. 4ème édition, mise à jour. P. Chacornac, 1906. In-8, XI-602 pages. Broché. Premier plat avec l'angle inférieur manquant, dos et second plat factice.‎

‎15 planches hors texte et figures dans le texte. Expériences de Sir Crookes, Slade, Donald, Mac-Nab, Pelletier .Chapitres sur : les médiums, les tables tournantes, les femmes électriques, la lévitation. (Caillet n° 9524).‎

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‎"SALVINI, SALVINO (Edt.). - VIVIANI, VINCENZO.‎

‎Fasti consolari dell'accademia Fiorentina [A Biographical History of the Florentine Academy]. - Containing Viviani's ""Racconto istorico della Vita di Galileo Galilei"" [Historical Account of the Life of Galileo Galilei]. - [THE FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT BIOGRAPHY OF GALILEI]‎

‎Firenze, Nella Stamperia S.A.R. Per Gio: Gaetano, e Sant Franchi, 1717. 4to. Contemporary full vellum with handwritten title to spine. A bit of wear to capitals and a bit of minor soiling to boards, but a fine and handsome copy. Inner hinges a bit weak. Internally nice and clean, with just a bit of light minor occasional brownspotting. Large engraved pictorial vignette (heading: Accdemia Fiorentina) to title-page. Very nice woodcut vignettes and initials throughout. XXXI, (1), 676, (2, - Approvazioni) pp. [Viviani's Galilei-biography: pp. 397-431].‎

‎First edition of this extensive work of biographies of the people of the Florentine Academy. Among the dozens of biographies in the present work, we have the first printing of Viviani's seminal biography of Galilei, the first, and by far the most important biography of the great astronomer ever written. It is from this biography that we have most of the canonical stories and anecdotes about Galilei that keep being repeated and quoted - e.g. the legend of Galilei demonstrating to his students that Aristotle was wrong about speed of fall being related to the weight of an object by dropping balls of different mass off the leaning tower in Pisa"" the stories of how he came up with the idea of the pendulum after having watched a suspended lamp swing back and forth in the cathedral of Pisa when he was still a student there - and furthermore also how his first experiments with pendulums were carried out (by his son due to his own failing eyesight), etc., etc.Vincenzo Viviani (1622-1703) considered himself Galilei's last pupil and he spent most of his life reinstating the ideas of Galilei. He was merely 20 years old when his master died, and he was present at the bedside of the dying master as well as at the removal of his body. Thus, he was a direct witness to many of the events that took place in Galilei's life, and as such he is an indispensible biographer - especially seeing that no other person had attempted a biograhy of the great astronomer. After Galielei's death, Viviani was granted a pension by the King of France, in exchange for him writing a great, massive biography of his master. This planned massive work never came about, though, - probably due to both fear of retaliation, inabilty to reconcile geometry with the dogmas of faith, and finally a general fear of what such a biography could carry with it politically, etc. (he had apparantly also been warned of this). What we have left of the massive work is that which is present in Salvini's collection of biographies of the Florentine Academy. The work is written in the form of a letter addressed to Prince Leopoldo de'Medici, and it was not printed during Viviani's lifetime, but only in 1717, in the present book. Though not as extensive as had originally been planned, and though not printed as soon as originally planned, the work is still of the greatest importance to our knowledge about Galilei and forms the foundation for all later works on the astronomer. For the student of Galilei, it is absolutely indispensible. Being the first biography of Galilei, and the only one written by a contemporary, and one who knew him very well, the work plays a greater role in the study of the master's life than any other work.Viviani may not have been a faithful chronicler or a clear interpreter, but we will have to make do with that which he can tell us about Galilei. Though not all stories may be true, almost all of the most famous anecdotes and legends that we have about Galilei stem from the present work. After having described the various marvels, discoveries, etc. of Galilei's life, Viviani ends by describing the last hours of Galilei's life: ""il Mercoledì delli 8. de Gennaio del 1641. ab Inc. a ore 4. di notte in età di settantasette anni, mesi dieci, e giorni vent, con Filosofica, e Christiana constanza, rese l'Anima al suo Creatore, inviandosi questa a godere, e rimarar più d'apresso quelle eterne maraviglie, ch'ella con tanta avidità, & impazienza aveva procurator per mezzo di fragil artifizio d'avvicinare agli occhi di noi mortali."" (p. 423) [""On the night of Jan. 8, 1641, at about 4 o'clock at night at the age of 77 years, 10 months, and 20 days, with philosophical and Christian firmness he rendered up his soul to its Creator, sending it, as he liked to believe, to enjoy and to watch from a closer vantage point those eternal and immutable marvels which he, by means of a fragile device, had brought closer to our mortal eyes with such eagerness and impatience.""] - clearly showing the sense that Viviani had for Galilei's biblically inspired faith.The work furthermore contains several hitherto unpublished treatises on men from the famous scientific academy of Florence.‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 43065

‎"STENQUIST, DAVID.‎

‎Étude des courants telluriques + Deuxième fascicule. - [FOUNDTAIONAL WORK ON GIC-IMPACT]‎

‎Stockholm, R.W. Statlanders Boktryckeri, 1935 + 1930. Large 4to. 2 vols in original printed wrappers. 1st part with some spine wear and a bit of wear to corners. Wrappers of second part with a bit of light brownspotting. Both parts with stamps to front wrappers and title-pages, library markings to wrappers, and printed tape-strips across wrappers, all from the Danish Meteorological Institute (from the archive of which this set has been sold directly). 79 + 17 pp. Richly illustrated.‎

‎First printing of Stenquist's landmark work on earth currents, which includes his seminal scientific description of the great storm of May 1921 that has turned out to be one of the most significant reports in the history of geomagnetic storms and space weather. The work is of fundamental importance to extreme weather forecasting and is a classic in the field. ""The most spectacular (and most dangerous) examples of GIC impact were two destructive fires-the first in Sweden around 02:00 GMT on 15 May and the second in the United States around an hour later. The Swedish event occurred in a telephone exchange in the town of Karlstad, 260 km west of Stockholm. This event was widely reported around the world... It was also the subject of contemporary study by David Stenquist, a Swedish scientist and engineer, who had a long interest in what we would now call GIC impacts on telecommunications systems. One of his narrative reports on the event is included in his 1925 memoir on earth currents (Stenquist, 1925), and another is reproduced by Karsberg et al. (1959). They both outline how the operators at Karlstad exchange first experienced problems (equipment anomalies and faint smoke) around 01:00, followed by a period of quiet, before the main fire started around 02:00 leading to extensive equipment damage. Stenquist also highlighted a near-miss incident at Ånge, some 380 km north west of Stockholm, that was simultaneous with the Karlstad fire. This experienced a threat similar to that fire, but where the initial problems were sufficient to trigger preventive measures that avoided major damage. In his later analysis of the Karlstad fire (Albinson, 2018" Engström, 1928" Stenquist, 1925), Stenquist noted that this site was vulnerable to strong GIC, because it was on the 400 km route of the major communications lines between Oslo and Stockholm, and this route was vulnerable because of its east-west orientation. His insights into engineering design of the communications lines enabled him to estimate the geoelectric fields that created the damaging GIC. He showed that fields of at least 6 V/km were required to cause the observed melting of fuses, ""tubes de fusion,"" in copper wires, and that a field of 20 V/km would have caused more damage than observed (melting of fuses in iron wires). As a result he suggested that 10 V/km would be a reasonable estimate of the average geoelectric field in central Sweden at the time of the Karlstad fire."" (Hapgood). ""Over the past decade the public perception of space weather has changed markedly so that it is now considered a major societal risk alongside other natural hazards including pandemic disease, extremes of temperature, coastal and river flooding, earthquakes, and volcanic activity. As a result of this step change in public perception, improved understanding of severe space weather, and its impacts, is now a vital element in the scientific evidence sought by policy-makers responsible for societal resilience. Those policy-makers require information on both the likelihood, and the adverse impacts, of severe space weather, just as they do for other natural hazards. Only then can they integrate space weather into wider plans to ensure societal resilience against the whole range of natural hazards....A key element in this evidence is the likely timelines of extreme space weather events. Such knowledge enables us to build scenarios that give insights into the spatial and temporal distribution of adverse impacts, and into the information that will be available to enable timely decision-making before, during and after an extreme event. They are also vital for exercises to test mitigation plans and to train key personnel in government and industry. Scenarios are also critical inputs for realistic studies on the socio-economic impact of space weather.This study addresses one route to scenario development, namely, a review of previous severe space weather events, and specifically focuses on one outstanding case, the great storm of 13-16 May 1921, and particularly the very intense activity on 14/15 May."" (Mike Hapgood: Space Weather. The Great Storm of May 1921: An Exemplar of a Dangerous Space Weather Event).‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 59955

‎"TILLOCH, ALEXANDER (EDT.). - RODMAN'S ""TREPANNING INSTRUMENT""‎

‎The Philosophical Magazine: comprehending the various Branches of Science, the Liberal and Fine Arts, Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce. Vol. VI.‎

‎London, Davis, Taylor, and Wilks, (1800). 8vo. Contemp. boards. Spine with gilt titlelabel. A few scratches to spine. (6),378 pp. and 11 engraved plates, some folding. 2 leaves in ""Content"" and 3 leaves in the text torn with loss of some letters.‎

‎First printing, not a reprint. With the spectacular plate depicting Rodman's Trepanning Instrument accompanying his article describing its use.‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 51702

‎"TROPICAL CYCLONES - A. LEFEBVRE.‎

‎Mémoire sur les Ouagans de la Mer des Indes au Sud de L'Équator.‎

‎Paris, Paul Dupont, 1852. Orig. clothbacked printed boards. Offprint from ""Annales hydrographiques, 2e partie"". 36 pp. 2 folded charts.‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 54148

‎"TYNDALL, JOHN - GLOBAL WARMING.‎

‎Action of Free Molecules on Radiant Heat, and its Conversion thereby into Sound. Received January 23, 1882.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1883). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1882, Volume 173 - 1883. Pp. 291-354. Textillustrations.‎

‎First printing of the last of Tyndall's larger works on the constitution of the atmosphere and its absorption of radiant heat. The substance of this paper was delivered orally as the Bakerian Lecture on November 24, 1881.‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 43532

‎"VOSSIUS, GERHARD (GERARDUS) JOHANN. - ""ARTES LIBERALES"" AND THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS.‎

‎Ars Historica. Sive de Historiae, & Historicis naturâ, Historiaeque scribendae praeceptis, Commentario. Ad Illustrissimum Virum, Joannem Berckium. (+) De Qvattuor Artibus popularibus, de Philologia, et Scientiis Mathematicis, Cui Operi sunjungitur, Ch...‎

‎Leiden, Joannis Maire, 1653 - Amsterdam, Ioannes Blaeu, 1650. 4to. One contemp. full vellum. Contemp. handwritten titles (weak) to spine. First title in red/black with large engraved titlevignette. (8),154,(1) pp. (Ars Historica 1653) - (16),94,(14) pp. (Grammatistice etc. 1650) - (8),83,(15) pp. (De Philologia, 1650) - (16),467,(33) pp. (De Universae Mathesios..., 1650). Fine and clean.‎

‎First edition of ""De Qvattuor Artibus..."" (which includes ""De Universae Mathesios"" with separate titlepage) and second edition of ""Ars Historica""The mathematical work: Poggendorff II, 1235. ""de Mathesios."": ""According to prof. Cantor, (it) is the first history of mathematics in its widest sense"". Honeyman Coll., 3081.‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 49198