‎Sciences‎

‎ANON. -‎

‎Abhandlungen der Fries'schen Schule von Apelt, Schleiden, Schlömilch und Schmid. 1.-2. Heft.‎

‎Leipzig, W. Engelmann, 1847-49. Later hcalf. Back somewhat rubbed. Bound uncut. 174,197 pp. Somewhat brownspotted. (3+8 tracts).‎

‎The original printing.‎

Bookseller reference : 27602

‎SCHLEIDEN, M.J.‎

‎Studien. Populäre Vorträge. Zweite umgearb. und vermehrte Aufl.‎

‎Leipzig, Engelmann, 1857. Cont. hcalf. Back lightly rubbed. Engraved portrait. X,390 pp., 1 double-page tinted lithographed plate, 1 lithogr. folded map and 3 lithogr. plates. Internally fine and clean.‎

Bookseller reference : 27922

‎LARDNER, DIONYSIUS (EDT.).‎

‎The Museum of Science and Art. Illustrated by Engravings on Wood. 12 vols.‎

‎London, Walton and Maberly, 1859. Bound in 6 cont. hcalf with tome-and titlelabels in leather on backs. Top of spines lightly worn, backs lightly rubbed. Very richly illustrated with woodcuts. Internally fine and clean.‎

‎The work, splendid illustrated, deals with the whole spectrum of science, technology, arts and crafts, having e.g. detailled descriptions of railways and telegraphs.‎

Bookseller reference : 28153

‎(RUMPF, J.D.F.).‎

‎Neue Bilder Gallerie für junge Söhne und Töchter zur angenehmen und nützlichen Selbstbeschäftigung aus dem Reiche der Natur, Kunst, Sitten, und des gemeinen Lebens. Achter Band (von 14).‎

‎Berlin, Oehmigke den Jüngern, 1801. Cont. boards. Back worn, corners bumped. Handcoloured engraved titlepage. XVI,352 pp. and 10 (of 20) handcoloured engraved plates (mostly with many figs. each). A little browning.‎

Bookseller reference : 31131

‎BLEULER, EUGEN.‎

‎Naturgeschichte der Seele und ihres Bewusstwerdens. Eine Elementarpsychologie.‎

‎Bln., 1921. Lex8vo. Cont.hcalf. VI, 343 pp. First edition.‎

Bookseller reference : 3132

‎DOCKX, S. & P.BERNAYS.‎

‎Information and Preditction in Science.‎

‎New York, Academic Press, 1965. 8vo. Publishers full cloth. XI,(3),272 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 32041

‎BUTCHVAROV, PANAYOT.‎

‎Resemblance and Identity: An Examination of the Problem of Universals.‎

‎Blumington & London, Idiana University Press, 1966. 8vo. Publsihers full cloth with dust jacket. Fine condition. XIV,208 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 32057

‎FLECKENSTEIN, JOACHIM O.‎

‎Naturwissenschaft und Politik. Von Galilei bis Einstein.‎

‎München, Callway, (1965). Orig. full cloth. Frontispiece. 255 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 32365

‎HARRIS, L.E.‎

‎Two Netherlanders. Humphrey Bradley and Cornelis Drebbel.‎

‎Cambridge, Heffer & Sons, 1961. Orig. full cloth. (8),227 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 32369

‎SAGRAMOSO, MARQUIS DE.‎

‎Tal, Hållit För Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps Academien...den 16. April 1748.‎

‎Stockholm, Lars Salvius, ((1748). Uden omslag. 14 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 33565

‎BASTHOLM, CHRISTIAN.‎

‎Philosophie for Ulærde.‎

‎Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1787. Samt. papbd. med forgyldt rygtitel. Kobberstukket titelvignet. (14),214 pp. Svag skjold i øverste højre hjørne på de første 5 blade. Lettere brugsspor.‎

‎Originaludgaven.‎

Bookseller reference : 34902

‎ADLER, ALFRED.‎

‎Praxis and Theorie der Individualpsychologie. Vorträge zur Einführung in Die Psychotherapie für Ärtze, Psychologen und Lehrer.‎

‎Münchu. Wiesb., 1920. Lex8vo. Orig.frontwr. VI, 244 pp. First edition.‎

Bookseller reference : 3552

‎BERNSTEIN, A.‎

‎Aus dem Reiche der Naturwissenschaft. Ein Buch für Jedermann aus dem Volke. 12 Bde.‎

‎Berlin, Franz Duncker, 1853-56. Bound in 4 contemp. uniform hcalf. Gilt backs. Ca. 2000 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 36385

‎SANDSTRÖM, J.W.‎

‎Eine meteorologische Forschungsreise in dem Schwedischen Hochgebirge.‎

‎Uppsala & Stockholm, 1913. No wrappers. Uncut. 50 pp. , 2 folded maps and 2 plates with many figs., textillustrations.‎

‎(Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar. Band 50:9).‎

Bookseller reference : 36843

‎FREUD, SIGM.‎

‎Sammlung kleiner Schriften zur Neurosenlehre aus den Jahren 1893-(1919). 1.-5. Folge (alles). 5 Bde. (1.:4 Aufl. - 2.:3. Aufl. - 3.:Erste Aufl. - 4.:2. Aufl. - 5.:Erste Aufl.).‎

‎Lpz.u. Wien, 1913-22. Bound in 4 full cloth. 229, 206, 321, 577, 273 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 3810

‎KORSCHELT, E. et al. (HRSG.)‎

‎Handwörterbuch der Naturwissenschaften. Herausgegeben von E. Korschelt, G. Linck, F. Oltmanns, K. Schaum, H. Th. Simon, M. Verworn, E. Teichmann. 10 Bde.‎

‎Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1912-15. Orig. half cloth with gilt lettering. A few hinges weak. Lex-8vo. With more than 7000 illustrations.‎

Bookseller reference : 38709

‎HANNEMANN, D.‎

‎Lærebog i Landmaaling og Nivellering. Udarbeidet, nærmest efter Fr. Hartners Handbuch der niederen Geodäsie. med 10 atweentrykte Figurtavler.‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Philipsens Forlag, 1855. Samtidigt hldrbd. med rygforgyldning, ryg noget slidt. Stempel på titelbladet. (6),283,(6) pp. samt 10 store litograferede foldetavler med talrige figurer. Indvenig med brugsspor og noget brunplettet.‎

Bookseller reference : 39984

‎"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

Bookseller reference : 40114

‎TRUE, FREDERICK W.‎

‎A History of the first Half-Century of the National Academy of Sciences 1863-1913.‎

‎Washington, 1913. 4to. Orig. full cloth., gilt. VIII,399 pp., plates and 7 portraits in heliogravure. Clean and fine.‎

Bookseller reference : 41159

‎"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.‎

Bookseller reference : 43065

‎STENO (STENONIS STENSEN), NICOLAI (NIELS).‎

‎Epistolae et Epistolae ad eum Datae. Quas cum Prooemio ac Notis Germanice Scriptis. Edidit Gustav Scherz adjuvante Joanne Ræder. 2 vols.‎

‎Hafniae, 1952. Large 4to. Uncut in orig. wrappers. XXII,1028 pp. 2 portraits. One of 500 copies. Clean and fine.‎

Bookseller reference : 43562

‎ABRAHAM, KARL.‎

‎Versuch einer Entwicklungsgeschichte der Libido auf Grund der Psychoanalyse seelischer Störungen.‎

‎Lpz., Wien, Zür., Intern. Psych. Verlag, 1924. Orig.printed wrappers. Wr.with tears. Uncut. First edition.‎

Bookseller reference : 4383

‎"AMONTONS, (GUILLAUME). - THE INVENTION OF THE AIR PRESSURE THERMOMETER.‎

‎Discours sur quelques proprietez de l'air, & le moyen d'en connoître la temperature dans tous les climats de la terre.‎

‎(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1704). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1702"". Pp. 155-174 a. textillustrations.‎

‎First appearance of this paper in which Amontons describes his invention, construction and function of his air thermomer. He thus improves on Gallileo's design by using air pressure instead of volume. The paper is the earliest study in this field, and Amontions concludes ""that unequal masses of air under equal weights invcrease equally the force of their spring for equal degrees of heat"" Fifteen years later Gay-lussac performed the same experiments with better technique and results - the Gay-Lussac laws.The paper ""contains Amontons' account of the first thermometer with which temperature was measured by the pressure of air.""(Magie ""A Source book in Physics"", pp. 128 ff.).""His first scientific production was a Hygrometer in 1687....The other was an air thermometer independent of the atmospheric pressure. Air occupied the top of one of the branches of a U-shaped tube, and by its dilation it pushed down one of the mercury columns so that the other end ofthe branch formed a barometric chamber.""(DSB I, p. 138 a).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1702 M).‎

Bookseller reference : 44385

‎HELMHOLTZ, HERMANN.‎

‎Populäre wissenschaftliche Vorträge. Erstes-Drittes Heft. 3 Bde. (1. u. 2. Heft in zweite neu durchgearbeitete Auflage).‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1876. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Spine gilr. A tear to upper part frontjoin. Spine rubbed. VI,(1),134VIII,(1),211VI,(1),139 pp., textillustrations. Internally fine and clean.‎

Bookseller reference : 44409

‎DROBISCH, MORITZ WILHELM.‎

‎Neue Darstellung der Logik nach ihren einfachsten Verhältnissen mit Rücksicht auf Mathematik und Naturwissenschaft. Dritte neu bearbeitete Aufl.‎

‎Leipzig, Leopold Voss, 1863. Bound with orig. printed frontwrapper in recent full fabrikoid. XXIV,240 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 44481