‎Sciences occultes‎

‎"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.‎

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‎"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.‎

‎First printing of an early work by one of the pioneers in meteorology, Louis Cotte.‎

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‎"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.‎

‎First printing of an importent paper in which Dalton clarifies certain unclear points in his famous essays ""Experimental essays on the constitution of mixed gases...."", published 1801-02. These essays ""gave him at once European reputation... by these discoveries meteorology was constituted a science"" (D.N.B.).""I propose therefore (after some misunderstanding from Thomson and others), 1st, To state, in as clear a point of view as the subject will admit, the principles which I assume: 2d, To show that the consequences which I have deduced from them are legitimate"" and, particularly, that mixed elastic fluids ought not to arrange themselves according to their specific gravity: and, 3d, To demonsrate that the supposition of the gases constituting the stmospere being held in a state of equal diffusion by chemical affinity, is not only inconsistent with the phaenomena, but is completely absurd"" (John Dalton in the paper).Smyth ""John Dalton... A Bibliography"", No 29 (listing it here as it was the same text as part 4, which it is not).‎

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‎"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.‎

‎First apperance of an importent meteorological paper in which Dove sets forth his ""Drehungsgesetzt"", the turning of the wind: the direction on northern hemisphere is opposite as on the southern hemisphere.Darmstaedter 1835.‎

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‎"DOVE, KARL.‎

‎Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika. Ergebnisse einer wissenschaftlichen Reise im südlichen Damaralande. Mit drei Karten auf einer Tafel.‎

‎Gotha, Julius Perthes, 1896. 4to. No wrappers. (6),93 pp., 3 maps on 1 plate.‎

‎(Petermann's ""Geographischen Mittheilungen"", Ergänzungsheft No 120).‎

Référence libraire : 46814

‎"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

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‎"L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES, PARIS - THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, PARIS.‎

‎Descriptions des Arts et Métiers faites ou approuvées. Par Messieurs de L'Academie Royale des Sciences de Paris, avec Figures en Taille-douce. Nouvelle edition. Publiée avec des Observations, & augmentée de tout ce qui a été écrit de mieux sur ces ma...‎

‎Neuchatel, L'Imprimerie de la Société Typographique), 1771-83. 4to. Bound in 19 contemp. uniform full mottled calf. Raised bands. Gilt spines. Title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Spine-ends on nearly all volumes strenghtened. Stamp on title-pages. Each volume around 650 pp. With 508 fine engraved plates.‎

‎Second edition and the first 4to-edition was published in 19 volumes plus an additional volume by Jean Elie Bertrand (where vol. 20 is an additional volume published much later (1799) - not present here - dealing with the art of printing). This importent collection of books on crafts was published by between 1761 and 1788. The full series comprises 113 parts (cahiers) in 27 folio volumes along with three supplements, and ""provide detailed accounts of a wide range of handcraft and manufacturing processes carried out in France at that time. The volumes are well-illustrated, with precise engravings by Jean Elie Bertrand (1737-1779) a noted typographer from Neuchâtel, where the printing was done. Many of them provide the background for shorter articles in Diderot's Encyclopedia, which was appearing at much the same time. The project had its origin in request from Colbert in 1675 to the Academy Royal des Sciences for detailed accounts of various mechanic arts to be prepared and for new machines to be reported upon. This led to the formation of the Bignon Commission under Abbé Bignon. René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683-1757) became editor soon after he joined the Academy. He inherited number of drawings (the earliest prepared in 1693) and an illustrated manuscript on printing, type and book binding, which had been prepared in 1704. It was left to Réaumur's successor Duhamel du Monceau to bring about the publication of the series, probably as the result of the competition from the Encyclopedia."" (Wikipedia).Brunet II,618 ff. - Graesse II, 367.‎

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‎"L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES, PARIS. - WITH FORARMEN WINSLOW, WINSLOW, J.B. ET AL.‎

‎Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année M.DCCXV. Avec les Memoires de Mathematiquee & de Phisique, pour la même Année. Tirés des Registres de cette Academie.‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1718. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to foot of spine. Engraved frontispiece. (6),114,274 pp., 10 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine.‎

‎With original papers by: de la Hire, Maraldi, Lemery de Cadet, Cassini, Nicole, Saulmon, Delisle le Cadet, Chevalier de Louville, Rouhaut, Saulmon, Malezieu, Maraldi & Cassini, Petit, Malezieu, Reaumur, Varignon, Winslow (FIRST EDITION of the paper, describing ""forarmen Winslowii"": Nouvelles Observations anatomiques sur la Situation et la Conformation des plusieurs Visceres. pp. 226-235, Geoffroy le Cadet, Senés.‎

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‎"LAMBERT, JOHANN HEINRICH. - THE THEORY OF THE WAVES OF THE SEA.‎

‎Sur la Figure de L'Océan.‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1769). 4to. No wrappers as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", tome XXIII, 1767, pp., 1 folded engraved worldmap in the Lambert projection.‎

‎First appearance of the paper in which Lambert set forth his theory of how ocean Waves devellops.‎

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‎"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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‎"PARMENTIER, ANTOINE AUGUSTIN.‎

‎Examen chymique des pommes de terre. - [CONQUERING HUNGER AND MALNUTRITION IN 18TH CENTURY EUROPE]‎

‎Paris, Didot le jeune, 1773. Large 12mo (167 x 98 mm). In a nice contemporary full mottled calf binding with five raised bands. Spine richly gilt. Boards with gilt frame and edges of boards gilt. Occassional very light browning and a very vague damp-stain in lower outer corner affecting some pages. An overall very nice copy. XXIV, 248, (4)‎

‎First edition of Parmentier's groundbreaking work that revolutionized the understanding of potatoes and their biological and chemical properties. Published in 1773, Parmentier's work sheds light on the scientific aspects of potatoes, their nutritional value, and their potential to address food scarcity and malnutrition. Permentier aimed at dispelling myths about and prejudices against potatoes, which were considered as food for livestock and were largely neglected as a human food during that era. His discoveries eventually caused Louis XVI, the French Monarch to declare: “La France vous [Parmentier] remerciera un jour d’avoir trouvé le pain des pauvres” (i.e. France will thank you one day for having found the bread of the poor). Parmentier's work on potatoes was a significant scientific breakthrough. By applying principles of chemistry and experimental analysis, he revealed the rich nutritional content and potential health benefits of this versatile crop. Parmentier's experiments showcased the potato's high water content, carbohydrate content, and its impressive array of vitamins and minerals. He also explored the potato's medicinal properties, using it to treat various ailments such as dysentery and scurvy. The publication of ""Examen Chymique des Pommes de Terre"" had a profound impact on society. Parmentier's research highlighted the importance of potatoes as a sustainable food source capable of supporting large populations. In an era plagued by famine and general food shortages, Parmentier's findings played a vital role in combating hunger and malnutrition. His efforts to promote potatoes as a staple food contributed to their acceptance and eventual integration into European diets. Parmentier's book had a lasting legacy shaping the fields of botany and chemistry. His meticulous observations and experiments on potatoes laid the groundwork for further scientific studies into plant chemistry and nutrition. Parmentier's work inspired subsequent researchers to explore the chemical composition of various crops, ultimately expanding our understanding of the fundamental building blocks of life. Moreover, his promotion of potatoes as a reliable and nutritious food source has left an permanent mark on agricultural practices worldwide. Not in Vicaire, Cagle, or Oberlé.‎

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‎"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. - DEDIKATIONSEKSEMPLAR.‎

‎Den ældste Hebraiske Tidsregning indtil Moses, efter Kilderne på ny bearbejdet og forsynet med et Kårt.‎

‎København, Schultz, 1828. Ubeskåret med originale blå blanke omslag. 16,139,(1) pp., 1 kobberstukket foldekort (Kårt over Paradis og omliggende Lande). Spredte brunpletter. Med egenhændig dedikation på indersiden af foromslaget ""Velærværdige/ Hr. Pastor Westergård/ med venskabelig Hilsen/ fra/ Forfatteren.""‎

‎"ROCHAS Albert De;"‎

‎L'extériorisation de la sensibilité.‎

‎Etude expérimentale et historique.6ème édition augmentée d'expériences nouvelles par MM. Boirac, Joire, Broquet, etc P. Chacornac, 1909. In-8, VII-357 pages. Broché. Dos cassé, couvertures et dos factice en papier cuve.‎

‎4 planches lithographiées en 3 couleurs d'après les aquarelles d'Albert Lévy, hors texte et figures dans le texte.‎

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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.‎

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‎"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).‎

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‎"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.‎

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‎"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.‎

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‎"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.‎

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‎"VOLTA, ALESSANDRO.‎

‎Sur le retour périodique des orages, et sur le vent très-froid et extraordinairment sec qui se fait sentir plusieurs heures aprés ceux qui sont accompagnés de gréle. Lettre de Volta au professeur Configliachi. Traduit par M. Billy.‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1817). No wrappers. Extract from: Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", Series 2, Tome 4. Pp. 245-259.‎

‎First apearance in French of Volta's paper dealing with meteorological phenomena, the causes of storms, hailstorms etc. Volta’s interest in meteorology began already in 1752 where he dealt with electricity in the atmosphere.‎

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‎"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.‎

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‎"WHEWELL, WILLIAM.‎

‎History of the Inductive Sciences. From the Earliest to the Present Times. In three volumes. + The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon their History. In two volumes. Five volumes in all. - [COINING THE TERM ""SCIENTIST""]‎

‎London, 1837 + London, 1840. Five volumes 8vo. Bound in five contemporary, uniform brown half calf bindings (The Philosophy...-volumes slightly darker brown) with raised bands and gilt spines. Marbled edges. A bit of light edge-wear, but overall very fine and fresh. Some marginal pencil markings to first part of vol. 1 of ""The Philosophy..."", otherwise also internally very nice and clean. All five volumes with the same engraved amorial bookplate to inside of front boards. A very nice, uniform set of the five volumes that make up the two works. XXXVI, 437, (3)" XI, (1), VI pp., pp. (7)-534, (2) XII, 624 pp. + CXX, 523, (1)" IV, 586 pp. + folded plate.‎

‎Uncommon first editions of both these splendid works (the ""Philosophy"" is particularly scarce), Whewell's two main works, both seminal in the history of science and philosophy of science. The first of the two works, the ""History"" is considered ""one of the important surveys of science from the Greeks to the nineteenth century"" (DSB), and it is in the second of them, ""The Philosophy..."" - ""one of the masterpieces of Victorian philosophy of science"" (DSB) - that he coins the word ""scientist"", to describe a cultivator of science in general. “William Whewell (1794–1866) was one of the most important and influential figures in nineteenth-century Britain. Whewell, a polymath, wrote extensively on numerous subjects, including mechanics, mineralogy, geology, astronomy, political economy, theology, educational reform, international law, and architecture, as well as the works that remain the most well-known today in philosophy of science, history of science, and moral philosophy. He was one of the founding members and a president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the Royal Society, president of the Geological Society, and longtime Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In his own time his influence was acknowledged by the major scientists of the day, such as John Herschel, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell and Michael Faraday, who frequently turned to Whewell for philosophical and scientific advice, and, interestingly, for terminological assistance. Whewell invented the terms “anode,” “cathode,” and “ion” for Faraday. In response to a challenge by the poet S.T. Coleridge in 1833, Whewell invented the English word “scientist""” before this time the only terms in use in that language were “natural philosopher” and “man of science”.” (SEP). ""First published in 1840, this two-volume treatise by Cambridge polymath William Whewell (1794-1886) remains significant in the philosophy of science. The work was intended as the 'moral' to his three-volume History of the Inductive Sciences (1837)... Building on philosophical foundations laid by Immanuel Kant and Francis Bacon, Whewell opens with the aphorism 'Man is the Interpreter of Nature, Science the right interpretation'. Volume 1 contains the majority of Whewell's section on 'ideas', in which he investigates the philosophy underlying a range of different disciplines, including pure, classificatory and mechanical sciences. Whewell's work upholds throughout his belief that the mind was active and not merely a passive receiver of knowledge from the world. A key text in Victorian epistemological debates, notably challenged by John Stuart Mill and his System of Logic, Whewell's treatise merits continued study and discussion in the present day."" (Cambridge University Press). ""From the late 1830's until his death, Whewell worked mainly in the history and philosophy of science. His three-volume ""History of the Inductive Sciences"" appeared in 1837" in 1838 he was appointed professor of moral philosophy" and the first edition of his two-volume ""The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History"" was published in 1840. Both the ""History"" and the ""Philosophy"" were ambitious works, and together they constitute Whewell's major scholarly achievement. The ""History"" had no rivals in its day and remains, despite unevenness, one of the important surveys of science from the Greeks to the nineteenth century. Whewell appreciated the importance of Greek science, especially astronomy, but showed typical disregard for the contributions of medieval scientists. His assessment of the importance of contributions of such major figures as Galileo and Descartes suffers from a heavy intrusion of religious and philosophical biases. But his treatment of Newton and other modern mathematical scientists is fair and sometime brilliant, and is based throughout upon detailed considerations of texts. Wheweel's ""Philosophy"" stimulated major philosophical exchanges between its author and Sir John Herschel, Augustus De Morgan, Henry L. Mansel, and John Stuart Mill. Alongside Mill's ""System of Logic"" and Herschel's ""Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy"", the work ranks as one of the masterpieces of Victorian philosophy of science. Whewell's effort in these works was unique in his attempt to derive a philosophy of science from the general features of the historical development of empirical science. The importance of this attempt has not been fully appreciated. Whewell thought that the history of science displayed a progressive movement from less to more general theories, from imperfectly understood facts to basic sciences built upon a priori foundations that he called ""Fundamental Ideas."" All science was theoretical in that no body of data comes to us selforganized"" even collection of data involves the imposition of a guiding interpretive idea. Major advances in science occur in what Whewell called an ""Inductive Epoch,"" a period in which the basic ideas of a science are well understood by one or more scientists, and in which the generality and explanatory power of a science are seen to be much more illuminating than those of rival theories. Each such ""Epoch"" had a ""Prelude,"" a period in which older theories experienced difficulties and new ideas were seen to be required, and a ""Sequel,"" a period in which the new theory was applied and refined. Largely ignoring the British tradition of empiricist philosophy and methodology, Whewell erected a philosophy of science upon his understanding of history that derived partly from Kant and Plato, and partly from an anachronistic theological position. Like his British predecessors, he thought that induction was the basic method of science. He understood induction not as a form of inference from particulars to generalizations, but as a conceptual act of coming to see that a group of data can best be understood and organized (his term was ""colligated"") under a certain idea. Furthermore, induction was demonstrative in that it yields necessary truths, propositions the logical opposites of which cannot be clearly conceived. The zenith of the inductive process was reached when a ""consilience of inductions"" took place-when sets of data previously considered disjoint came to be seen as derivable from the same, much richer theory. Although Whewell thought that the paradigm form of a scientific theory was deductive, he departed from the orthodox hypothetico-deductivist view of science by claiming that tests of the acceptability of given theories are extraevidential, based on considerations of simplicity and consilience. He made some attempt to justify the necessity of the conclusions that induction yields by arguing for the identity of facts and theories, and for the theological view that we know the world the way it is because that is the way God made it. In physical astronomy Whewell's work on the tides ranks second only to that of Newton. Also of great importance was his lifelong effort to modernize and improve science education at Cambridge. The achievement in history and philosophy of science probably is less significant, although recent revival of interest in Whewell has centered mainly upon his insights in philosophy of science and methodology. Interest is growing in the interrelations of history and philosophy of science"" and so long as this interest continues to be fruitful, it will be well worthwhile considering what Whewell had to say on the nature of scientific discovery, inductive methodology, and the characteristics of scientific progress."" (DSB, XIV, pp 293-94)‎

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‎"WOLFF, CHRISTIAN. - C.F. MOLBECHS EKSEMPLAR.‎

‎Der Anfangs=Gründe aller Mathematischen Wissenschaften, Erster- (Letzter= 4.) Theil. Neue, verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage. (4 Bde.). (+) Kurzer Unterricht von den Vornehmsten Mathematischen Schriften. Neue, verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage.‎

‎Frankfurt und Leipzig, Rengerschen Buchh., 1750. Bound in 4 contemp. full sprinckled calf, richly gilt spines and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Very lightly rubbed. Engraved portrait (Wolff) as frontispiece.(30),1934,(48) pp. + 178,(12) pp. With 152 folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎Værket har tilhørt C.F. Molbech (1785-1864) og bærer hans navn på indersiden af forreste friblad. ""Carl Frederik Molbech. Soröe 1825."" Yderligere en tilskrift af samme nederst på samme side omhandlende klassificerinssystemet for biblioteker: ""Kunde man ikke i decade Systemet definere 0 saaledes: 0 est Potenzator unitatis ? (I hele Tal Plus_Potenzator, i Decimalbrök Minus-Potenzator ?)/ C.F. Molbech‎

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‎"ZÖPPRITZ, K. - OCEAN CURRENTS.‎

‎Hydrodynamische Probleme in Beziehung zur Theorie der Meeresströmungen.‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1878). Without wrappers. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann."", Neue Folge Bd. 3, No. 4. (Entire issue offered). Pp. 465-616 a. 1 folded lithographed plate. Zöppritz's paper: pp. 582-607. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of a this pioneer paper on ocean circulation and currents.""K. Zöppritz presents a theoretical treatment of drif currents in ""Hydrodynamische Probleme in Beziehung zur Theorie der Meeresströmungen."" (the paper offered). His neglect of the Coriolis force, which he attempted to justify onthe basis of the slowness of movements of ocean currents, leads to the conclusion that the wind-driven flow of the ocean is in the direction of the wind independent of the depth in the ocean, with a speed which decreases with depth. The model is revised by Vagn Ekman after Fridtjof Nansen notes the defelction to the right of wind-induced sea ice-drift ans speculates that the cause derives from the earth's rotation.""(Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1878 E).‎

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