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‎"AMPÈRE, ANDRÉ-MARIE. - INCORPORATED IN THE ""PRINCIPIA"" OF ELECTRODYNAMICS AND THE INVENTION OF THE SOLENOID.‎

‎Extrait d'un Mémoire sur les Phénomènes électro-dynamiques. (Communique à l'Academie royale des Sciences le 22 dévcembre 1823). + Suite de l'Extrait, fait par M. Ampère, de son Mémoire sur les Phénomènes électro-dynamiques. + Description d'un Appa...‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1824. 8vo. Contemp. hcloth with gilt lettering to spine. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Series 2 - Volume 26. 448 pp. a. 5 large folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Ampere's papers: pp. 134-162, 246-258 a. 390-411. A bit of browning to halftitle and verso of last plate. A few scattered brownspots.‎

‎The first paper is the first appearance of one of Ampere's importent contributions to electrodynamic. This memoir was later incorporated in his great memoir of 1827 ""Mémoire sur la théorie mathématique des phénomenes electro-dynamiques...."", published 1827, the ""Principia"" of electrodynamics.The second paper is the first appearence of the paper in which Ampere describes his invention of the SOLENOID, the electro-magnetic device he used in his early electrodynamical experiments.""A solenoid is a coil wound into a tightly packed helix. In physics, the term solenoid refers to a long, thin loop of wire, often wrapped around a metallic core, which produces a magnetic field when an electric current is passed through it. Solenoids are important because they can create controlled magnetic fields and can be used as electromagnets. The term solenoid refers specifically to a magnet designed to produce a uniform magnetic field in a volume of space (where some experiment might be carried out).""The volume contains further importent papers by Poisson ""Sur la Chaleur rayonnante"", pp. 225-246 + Note.. pp. 442-44, Gay-Lussac, Savart, Pelletier et Caventou, Becquerel etc.‎

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‎"AMPÈRE, ANDRÉ-MARIE. - THE CARDINAL FORMULAS OF ELECTRO-DYNAMICS.‎

‎Mémoire sur une nouvelle Expérience électrodynamique, sur son application à la formule qui représente l'action mutuelle de deux élemend de conducteurs voltaïques, et sur de nouvelles conséquences déduites de cette formule. (Lu à l'Academie royale de...‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1825). Extracted from ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 29 a. 30. Ampère's papers: pp. 381-404 a. 1 folded engraved plate (tome 29) + Suite pp. 29-41 (tome 30) + ""Lettre à Gerhardi"": pp. 373-381 (tome 29). With both halftitlepages to vol. 29 a. 30. Scattered brownspots.‎

‎First appearance of this famous memoir, in which Ampère presented his collected results on electrodynamics to the French Academy, creating the foundation of 19th century developments in electricity and magnetism. In the words of James Clark Maxwell, ""We can scarcely believe that Ampère really discovered the law of action by means of the experiments which he describes. We are led to suspect, what, indeed, he tells us himself, that he discovered the law by some process which he has not shown us, and that when he had afterwards built up a pefect demonstration he removed all traces of the scaffolding by which he raised it.""The offered memoir was published BEFORE the famous ""Theorie mathématique des phénomènes électro-dynamiques uniquement déduite de L'expérience"", which did not appear until 1827. That 1827-Memoire incorporates, together with a new presentation of Ampère's results from 1820, 1822, 1823, the offered memoir (1825). (Horblit: 100 - Dibner: 62).""From 1814 until 1820 Ampére did not perform the kind of research that would have made it into the annals of the histrory of science, but on September 11, 1820 when he heard Francois Arago speak about Oersted's work, he got fresh inspiration and started the work that made him famous. Arago related how Oersted had found that a steady electric current influences the orientation of a compass needle. After a weak Ampère had determined experimentally that that two straight, parallel, and current-carrying, wires execute a force on each other. The magnitude of the force is inversely proportional to the distance between the wires and proportional to the strenghts of the current..... During the following years he continued his researches, both experimentally and theoretically. he built an instrument for measuring electricity that later was developed into the galvanometer. Finally in 1825 he presented his collected results to the Academy IN ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED MEMOIRS IN THE HISTORY OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY (The paper offered)."" (Citizen's Compendium, p. 2). - Norman No 47.‎

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‎"AMICI, JEAN-BAPTISTE. - INVENTION OF THE ACROMATIC MICROSCOPE.‎

‎Sur les Microscopes catadioptriques. (Traduit de l'italien).‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1821. No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 17, Cahier 4. With titlepage to tome 17. Pp. 337-414 a. 1 engraved folded plate. (Entire issue offered). Amici's paper: pp. 412-434 a. 1 folded engraved plate. Clean and fine, printed on good paper.‎

‎First French edition of Amici's famous paper ""Dei microscopii catadiottrici"" first published in Italian in 1818, in which he describes his invention of a new type of catadioptric microscope, the first with successfull achromatic lenses. The invention had a great impact on biology - Amici himself was able to see the streeming movements of protoplasm in the Alga Chara and in examining the hairs on the stigma of Purslane he saw a tube given off by the pollen grain, and the granular content os prerform streaming movementys like those in Chara, an importent feature in plant fertilization.‎

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‎"Amey, James M.; Experience, Toni L. Amey of The I‎

‎Lost Idora Park Images of America‎

‎like new. unknown‎

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‎"ANDREWS, THOMAS. - THE ""CRITICAL TEMPERATURE"" OF GASES.‎

‎The Bakerian Lecture. - On the Continuity of the Gaseous and Liquid States of Matter. Received June 14, - Read June 17, 1869.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1870). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1869 - Vol. 159 - Part II. Pp. 575-590 and 1 plate. Clean and fine.‎

‎First apperance of the paper in which Thomas Andrews announces his discovery of the ""CRITICAL POINT"", which states that for every gas there was a temperature above which pressure alone could not liquefy it.""This was a crucial discovery for it pointed the way toward the liquefaction of the permanent gases by demonstrating the necessity of dropping the temperature below the critical point before exerting pressure. This new view led within half a century to the work of Dewar and Kammerlingh-Onnes and the liquefaction of all known gases.""(Asimov).Magie: A Source Book in Physics, pp. 187-192. - Parkinson, Breakthroughs: 1869 C.‎

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‎"Anne" The Still Room Maid (compiled by).:‎

‎The Bolton Castle Wensleydale Book Of Recipes Past and Present‎

‎<p>Dewsbury no date Black and white frontispiece probably by Fred Lawson 1p preface 10p recipes. Stapled paper covers little scuffed and creased. Staples rusty. Pages foxed and little fingered. 14x21cms.</p> Dewsbury, no date‎

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‎"ARAGO, FRANCOIS - LOUIS DAGUERRE. - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PRODUCTION OF DAGUERROTYPES.‎

‎Fixation des images qui se forment au foyer d'une chambre obscure. (Seance du Lundi 7 Janvier 1839).‎

‎Paris, Bachelier, 1839. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome VIII No. 1. Pp. 1-36. (Entire issue offered with htitles and titlepages to volume 8). Arago's paper: Pp. 4-7. Light toning to halftitle. Stamps to title-page (one punched in lower margin). Fine and clan.‎

‎First printing of the first announcement and description of the production of Daguerreotypes made by Arago to the French Academy on January 7, 1839. The first complete report was printed on August 19, 1839. The presentation by Arago preceeded Daguerre's own publication ""Historique de description des procédés du daguerreotype et du diorama"", (1839).""Arago, himself a chemist and a member of the Chamber of Deputies, made a brief pronouncement on Daguerre's proces in the Chamber on 7 January 1839 (the paper offered). and in the following August printed the full text of his report thereon made to a joint sesion of the Chambers of Deputies and the Academy of Sciences.""(PMM: 318 (Note to).‎

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‎"ARLOING, SATURNIN. - THE SERUM DIAGNOSIS OF TUBERCULOSIS.‎

‎Sur l'obtention de cultures et d'émulsions homogénes du bacille de la tuberculose humaine en milieu liquide et ""sur une variété mobile de ce bacille"".‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1898. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 126, No 19. Pp. (1299-) 1382. (Entire issue offered). Arloing's paper: pp. 1319-1321.‎

‎First appearance of this importent paper in which Arloing describes his ""Sero-agglutination for the diagnosis of presence of tubercle bacillus."" (Garrison & Morton No. 2334).It is well known that the ordinary cultures of the bacillus of Koch can not be used for agglutination. Arloing, however, in 1898, obtained a fluid homogeneous culture of the tubercle bacillus and demonstrated its specific agglutinability by the serum of tuberculous human beings or animals, thus rendering possible the serum diagnosis of tuberculosis. (Courmont in ""Arch Intern Med."" 1909).‎

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‎"ATLAS - THE FRENCH PILOT- MOUNT, WILLIAM & THOMAS PAGE.‎

‎The Sea-Coasts of France, from Calais to Bayone. Described in Fifteen Large Charts. Surveyed and Printed by the order of the French King. From the Original, done at Paris, and the Remarks Explained in English, and Published for the Use of His Majesty'...‎

‎London, Printed for William Mount and Thomas Page on Tower Hall, no date (c. 1715). Folio. 53X35 cm. Cont. hcalf with marbled boards. Rebacked and recornered in old style with raised bands. Engraved typographical titlepage with a large engraved vignette showing the English King's Coat of Arms. With all 15 double-page engraved sea-charts (numbered (1)-(15) in lower right corners). Neat repairs to inner margins of free endpapers and titlepage. Some browning to charts. Chart 5 (45x75,5 cm) having the right margin shaved reaching the printed frame.‎

‎Second edition of this scarce ""Atlas Maritime"". According to Shirley it was first published by Richard Mount and Thomas Page in 1701 and re-issued with undated title (as this) in ab. 1715, but with the charts unchanged and a new engraved titlepage. A third issue came out in 1737 with a dated title. The fine charts are copied from Pieter Mortier's famous ""Neptune Francois"" (1693-1702) and reduzed in size.""The charts in this early Mount & Page atlas ""The Sea-Coasts of France"" are re-engravings, reduzed in size, from the charts in the French Neptune of 1693. The charts may also be found in the 1702 edition of Mount and Page's Atlas Maritimus Novus..."" (Rodney Shirley). - Not in Phillips. - Shirley Vol. II: M.M&P - 12 b.‎

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‎"AVOGADRO, (AMEDEO). - EXPANDING THE LAW OF PETIT & DULONG.‎

‎Nouvelles Recherches sur la Chaleur spécifique des Corps solides et liquides.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1834. No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 57, Cahier Oct. Pp. 113-224 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (The entire issue offered with halftitle to tome 57). Avogadro's paper: pp. 113-148. Browning to halftitle. Smoe scattered brownspots.‎

‎First printing of this paper in which Avogadro analyzed the connection between specific heats and atomic weights of chemical compounds and liquids after Dulong and Petit has announced their discovery of a relationship between heats and atomic weights of substances (the Law of Petit & Dulong). Avogadro tries to expands their law onto compounds as well.‎

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‎"BARLOW, PETER. - THE FIRST ""BARLOW LENS""‎

‎An account of a Series of experiments made with the view to the construction of an achromatic telescope with a fluid concave lens, instead of the usual lens of flint glass. In a letter adressed to Davies Gilbert.... Read January 17, 1828.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor, 1828). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1828 - Part I. Pp. 105-112.‎

‎First appearance of the paper in which Barlow described his invention of the so-called first ""Barlow-Lens"".He constructed his first achromatic telescope lens by enclosing liquid carbon disulfide between two pieces of glass. The Barlow- lens has come into general use for increasing the eyepiece power of any optical instrument.‎

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‎"BASEDOW, JOHANN BERNHARD. - MATHEMATICS IN THE EDUCATIONAL REFORM.‎

‎Bewiesene Grundsätze der reinen Mathematik. 2 Bde. (1. Bd. Zahlenkunst und Algebra, zur elementarischen Bibliothek. 2. bd. Geometrie und Etwas von dem Unendlichen).‎

‎Leipzig, Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius, 1774. Bound in 2 very fine contemp. full calf, raised bands, richly gilt spines. Title-and tomelabels in leather on spines with gilt lettering., gilt border on all covers. Blindtooled decorations on covers in Cambridge-style, ""mirror-binding"". Edges gilt. Stamp on foot of titlepages. (22),312"(16),296 pp. and 11 folded engraved plates. Light browning to some quires and to top of titles, otherwise fine.‎

‎Scarce first edition of the famous German educators mathematical textbook, - his suggestion to how mathematics should be taught in his educational reform. Basedow’s views were based on the writings of men such as John Amos Comenius, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His practical teaching methods were more expansive in their implications for education than those of any of his immediate predecessors in the field, and by the early 19th century they had become a fundamental force in Germany’s public school systems.Basedow blev i 1753 ansat af J.H.E. Bernstorff ved Sorø Akademi som professor i moral og de skønne videnskaber. Her kom han bl.a. i forbindelse med den danske oplysningsforfatter og Sorø-professor Jens Schielderup Sneedorff, hvis værker han oversatte til tysk. Sneedorff blev selv inspirereret af Basedows pædagogiske idéer.‎

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‎"BALARD, ANTOINE JÉROME. - THE DISCOVERY OF THE ELEMENT BROMINE‎

‎Mémoire sur une Substance particulière contenue dans l'eau de la mer (le brôme).‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1826). Without wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, par Gay-Lussac et Arago"", tome 32, Sec. Series, Cahier 4. Pp. 337-443 a. 1 fodled engraved plate. (The entire issue offerd). Balard's paper: pp. 337-84.‎

‎First printing of Balard's famous memoire in which he records his discovery of the new element Bromine (le brôme). While he was studying the flora of a salt marsh, he notized a deposit of sodium saulfate which had crystallized out in a pan containing mother liquer from common salts. ""In an attempt to find a use for the waste liquers he performed a number of experiments, and notized that when certain reagents were added, the mother liquer bacame brown. His investigation of this phenomenon,...ked to the remarkable discovery....(Weeks p. 264).""The discovery of a new chemical element by a young and obscure provincial pharmacist caused a sensation in Paris. Balard's achievemnt was recognized by the Academie des Sciences and he was awarded a medal by the Royal Society of London.""(DSB I, p. 416).""The discovery of bromine is a very importent acquisition to chemistry, and gives M. Balrad honorable rank inthe career of the sciences. We are of the opinion that this young chemist is every way worthy of the encouragement of the Academy, and we have the honour to propose that his memoir shall be printed in the ""Recueil des Savants Étrangers"" (The report from the French Academy, signed by Vaugelin, Thenard, and Gay-Lussac).‎

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‎"BABBAGE, CHARLES. - THE DIFFERENCE MACHINE OF SCHEUTZ, MATHEMATICALLY DESCRIBED.‎

‎Note sur la machine suédoise de MM. Schutz (!) pour calculer les Tables mathématiques par la méthode des différences, et en imprimer les résultats sur des planches stéréotypes.‎

‎(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1855. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 41, No 15. Pp. (537-) 563. (Entire issue offered). Babbage's paper: pp. 557-560. Some faint, mostly marginal brownspots.‎

‎First printing of this importent paper being babbage's report on the Scheutz differnce calculator, explaining its functions by way of his own notations.""Babbage's report on the differnce engine built by the Swedish printer Georg Scheuts (1785-1873) and his son Edvard (1821-81), based on Babbage's own designs.... In 1854 the Scheutzes took their engine no. 2 to England in the hopes of marketing it. There they were introduced to Babbage, who received them with great friendliness and showed a lively interest in their work. Babbage devoted two whole days to investigating Scheutz' engine for which he had much praise, especially for the way they had succeeded in building it with the funds at their disposals.... As part of his effort to promote the Scheutz Engine, Babbage gave a talk on it before the Academie des Sciences, illustrated with drawings by his son henry, in which Babbage's system of mechanical notation was used to describe the machines construction and functions. This talk was published (the paper offered) without illustrations in the Academie 'Comptes rendus'. ((Hook & Norman ""Origins of Cyberspace"", No. 73).‎

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‎"BAYLISS, W.M. (WILLIAM MADDOCK) & ERNEST H. STARLING. - FOUNDING THE SCIENCE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY.‎

‎On the Causation of the so-called 'Peripheral Secretion' of the Pancreas (Preliminary Communication). Received January 22, - Read January 23, 1902.‎

‎London, Harrison and Sons, 1902. 8vo. Contemp. full cloth. Top of spine worn down. Lower spine end with a small crack. A collation remark on title-page. A bookmark on inside frontcover, stating that the volume was bound 10/9/02 for City of Manchester. Municipal Technical School. ""Proceedings of the Royal Society"", Vol. 69. VII,501 pp. a. 6 plates. Bayliss & Starling's announcement: pp. 352-353. Internally clean.‎

‎This is the first printing, annoucing a milestone discovery which introduced a quite new field in physiology and medicine, the discovery of the FIRST HORMONE, which the discoverers named ""Secretin"". A few years later Sterling coined the word 'hormone' from the Greek 'hormon', meaning to exite or set into motion. Until know it was though that the control of the glands, here the pancreas, was controlled by the nerves (Pavlow and others), but Bayliss and Sterling showed that they have found that the intestine was signalling the pancreas by some COMPLETELY NEW MECHANISM involving a new kind of body or substance functioning as a chemical messenger. ""If nerves are the sprinters of biology, Bayliss & Starling had discovered the marathon runners. In doing so, they also founded the science of hormones, called endocrinology"" (Alan Lightman ""The Discoveries"", p. 34 ff). The announcement, as offered here, was later the same year followed by their larger paper ""The Mechanism of Pancreatic Secretion"" which they published in ""Journal of Physiology (1902)"".""With the discovery of hormones, Bayliss & Starling had found the internal command and control centers - and in this, their discovery was much larger than a new communication system. The mechanism of response and control was chemical: atoms and molecules. Now, with hormones, there was a mechanism for a living thing to regulate itself. Furthermore with hormones, an organism could not only be studied but also controlled from the outside... Never had the living body come closer to a machine, a self-regulating machine governed not only by physics but also chemistry. An not only a machine, but a machine that we human could willfully control. At the start of the new century, we still have not come to terms with the implications of this idea.""(Alan Lightman).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1902 B.‎

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‎"BAYLISS, W.M. (WILLIAM MADDOCK) & ERNEST H. STARLING. - THE CHEMICAL MESSINGER.‎

‎The Chemical Regulation of the Secretory process. (Croonian Lecture).‎

‎London, Harrison and Sons, 1904. 8vo. Later full buckram. Spine with gilt lettering. In: ""Proceedings of the Royal Society"", Vol. 73. VIII,548 pp. a. 11 plates. (Entire volume offered). Bayliss & Starling's paper: pp. 310-322. A stamp to edges, otherwise clean.‎

‎First printing of this paper in which they developed the theory of hormonal control of the internal secretion, a milestone discovery by Bayliss and Starling in 1902, which introduced a quite new field in physiology and medicine, the discovery of the FIRST HORMONE, which the they named ""Secretin"". They here tries to find out how this new body could be decribed chemically, and one of the conclusions were ""It is not precipitated by tannic acid, thus excluding bodies of alkaloid nature as well as di-amido compounds. This evidence, slight thought it is, points to secretin being a body of relatively small molecular weight and not a colloid. It may be compared to the active principle of the suprarenal glands, adrenalin, which has been obtained in a crystallic form and the cemical constitution of which has been approximately determined...""(p. 314-15).Garrison & Morton: 1121.‎

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‎"BERNARD, CLAUDE. - PROOVING THE DOCTRINE OF IRRETABILITY.‎

‎Analyse physiologique des propriètés des systèmes musculaire et nerveux au moyen du curare.‎

‎Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1856. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 43, No 18. Pp. (825-) 892. (Entire issue offered). Bernard's paper: pp. 825-829.‎

‎First printin of an importent paper in toxicology in which Bernard describes how he ""paralyzed motor nerve-endings with curare and demonstrated the independent excitability of muscle"" his paper is the classical proof of Haller's doctrine of irretability"" (Garrison & Morton).""Bernard was a true innovator in the study of the effects of toxic and medicinal substances. No one before him had understood so well the role of drug metabolization. He regarded poisoning as a local phenomenon, and advocated the use of certain poisons in physiological research. Curare and carbon monoxide had served him, he said, as ""chemical bistoury,"" making it possible to destroy specific structures selectively. ""(DSB).Garrison & Morton, No 616 and 2079.‎

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‎"BERNARD, CLAUDE. - DISCOVERY OF THE VASODILATING NERVES.‎

‎De l'influence de deux ordres de berfs qui déterminant les variations de couleur du sang veineux dans les organes glandulaires. (+) Sur la quantité d'oxygène que contient le sang veineux des organes glandulaires, à l'état de fonction et à l'éta...‎

‎Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1858. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 47, No 6 a. No 10. Pp. (245-) 279 a. pp. (393-) 431 (entire issues offered). Bernard's papers: pp. (245-) 253 a. pp. (393) -400.‎

‎First appearance of these landmark papers in which Barnard explains his discovery of how the nerves controls the blood vessels. This is the ""discovery of the vascoconstrictor and vasodilator nerves and description of their function of regulating the blood supply to the different parts of the body.""(Garrison & Morton, No. 774).""In 1858 (the papers offered) Bernard demonstrated the existence of vasodilator nerves by finding an increased blood flow through the submaxillary gland, when the corda tympani is stimulated. He also observed that the venous blood became bright red. Since that time an enormous amount of research has been carried out on the vasomotor system.""(R.J.S. Mcdowall).Garrison & Morton, No. 774.‎

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‎"BERGSØE, ADOLPH FREDERIK. - WITH A CHAPTER ON THE DANISH WESTINDIES.‎

‎Den danske Stats Statistik fremstillet. 4 Bd.‎

‎København., Forfatterens Forlag, 1844-53. (vo. 4 samtidige hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Forreste fals på bind 1 er revnet. XII,563,705,690,976 pp. Med 2 kort, det ene håndkoloreret (Forchammers kort fra ""Danmark geognostisk beskrevet""). Indvendig ren og frisk.‎

‎Originaludgaven af første samlede fremstilling af Danmark i statistisk henseende. 1. Bind.: ""Om den danske Stats naturlige Beskaffenhed og befolkning"" - 2. ""Om den danske Stats Landboforhold, Agerdyrkning, Industri og Handel."" - 3. Om den danske Stats immaterielle Cultur, Statsforfatning, beskatningsvæsen, og øvrige finantsielle Forhold"" - 4. Om forskjellige Statsforvaltningsforhold, Monarkiets udvortes Forhold, de fjernere Statsdele m.m.Bind 4 indeholder længere afsnit om Island (pp. 387-475, om Færøerne (pp. 475-504), om Grønland (pp. 505-556), om De dansk Vestindiske Øer (pp. 557-711).‎

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‎"BERZELIUS, JÖNS JACOB. - THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE OF CHEMISTRY INTRODUCED.‎

‎Experiments on the Nature of Azote, of Hydrogen, and of Ammonia, and upon the Degrees of Oxidation of which Azote is susceptible. (+) Essay on the Cause of Chemical Proportions, and on some Circumstances relating to them: together with a short and eas...‎

‎London, Robert Baldwin, 1813 a. 1814. 8vo. 2 contemp. hcalf. Marbled boards. Spines lacks and boards detached. In: ""Annals of Philosophy"" or Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics... By Thomas Thomson"". Vol. II and Vol. III. Entire volumes offered. Berzelius' papers: pp. 276-284, 357-368 (the first paper in vol. II), pp. 443-454 (vol. II) a. pp. 51-62, 93-106, 244-257 a. 353-364. (vol. III). Internally fine and clean.‎

‎First printing of these milestone papers in the history of chemistry, where Berzelius introduced his famous chemical symbolism whereby an element is generally represented by the first letter of its Latin name, or, in the event of elements having the same first letter, by the first two letters. Even though his atomic symbols were introduced in 1813 (see the note on p. 359 in the first paper), it was quite a few years before Berzelius's symbols were adopted by the chemistry community. But once accepted, they became the new international language of chemistry.Berzelius ""contributed more to the development of the atomic theory and to the setting up of accurate values of the atomic weights than did any other worker of the time. Of his contributions, moreover, to the development of the atomic theory and the advancement of chemical science, not the least valuable was the introduction of a chemical symbolism which, with slight modification, is in use at the present day. By giving his symbols a quantitative meaning - the symbol of an element representing one atomic proportion by weight - it was possible ""to show briefly and clearly the number of elementary atoms in each compound and, after the determination of their relative weights, present the results of each analysis in a simple and easely retained manner"". This symbolism was speedily adopted on the Continent but, in England, only after some considerable time.""(Findlay ""A Hundred Years of Chemistry"", p. 14.).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1813 C. - Leicester & Klickstein ""A Source Book in Chemistry"", p. 258 ff. - Holmberg 1813:28 a. The volume contains other notable papers THOMAS THOMSON ""On the Discovery of the Atomic Theory"", pp. 329-338. and JOHN DALTON ""Remarks on the Essay of Dr. Berzelius on the Cause of Chemical Proportions"", pp. 174-180 (Vol. III).‎

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‎"BESSEL, FRIEDRICH WILHELM. - REDUCING THE ""PERSONAL EQUATION"".‎

‎Fundamenta Astronomiae pro Anno MDCCLV deducta ex Observationibus Viri incomparabilis James Bradley in Specula Astronomica Grenovicensi per Annos 1750 - 1762 institutis.‎

‎Regiomonti (Königsberg), Frid. Nicolovium, 1818. Folio. Near contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. A small nick at upper backhinge. (12),325,(1) pp. Light scattered brownspots. Top of title-page with old owners name and a small stamp.‎

‎First edition of this milestone work in astronomical obeservation, where Bessel reduced the observations for the ""personal equation"" based on Bradley's observations and here published Bradley's Greenwich observations for the first time and making a catalogue of 3222 stars extracted from them.""The positions of Bradley’s stars valid for 1755 were published by Bessel as Fundamenta astronomiae pro anno 1755 (1818). This work also gives the proper motions of the stars, as derived from these observations of Bradley, of Piazzi, and of Bessel himself. It constitutes a milestone in the history of astronomical observations, for until then positions of stars could not be given with comparable accuracy: through Bessel’s work, Bradley’s observations were made to mark the beginning of modern astrometry. During this investigation Bessel became an admirer of the art of observation as practiced by Bradley"" and because Bradley could not evaluate his own observations, Bessel followed and also taught the principle that immediately after an observation, the reduction had to be done by the observer himself. Further, he realized that the accurate determination of the motions of the planets and the stars required continuous observations of their positions until such motions could be used to predict ""the positions of the stars .... for all times with sufficient accuracy."" (DSB).Shapley a. Howarth. A Source Boook in Astronomy, p. 103 a. 216.‎

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‎"BECQUEREL, EDMOND (ALEXANDRE-EDMUND). - BECQUEREL'S ""CONTINUING RAYS"" OR THE ""BECQUEREL PHENOMENA""‎

‎Mémoire sur le rayonnement chimique qui accompagne la lumiere solaire et la lumiere électrique. (3e Mémoire.- Extrait par l'auteur).‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1840. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome XI (No.18). Pp. (667-) 716. (Entire issue offered). Becquerel's paper:pp. 702-703. Some marginal brownspots, margins slightly soiled, light browning an creasing.‎

‎First printing of an importent paper in the history of photochemistry as he here discovered some effects of coloured rays of the solar spectrum.""Edmund Becquerel seems to be the first person to observe, in 1840 (in the paper offered), that the latent daguerreotype image which had been underexposed could be intensified if re-exposed to the yellow and red rays of the spectrum and then developed with mercury... Explaining this phenomenon, Becquerel called the yellow-red continuing rays (""rayon continuateurs"") in contrast to the primary rays, which exicited or produced the light image and which he called exiciting rays (""rayons excitateurs"").... They are dependent on the wave lenght of the light.""(Eder ""History of Photography"", pp. 265 ff.)""Becquerel was an early experimenter in photography. In 1840 he discovered that the silver halides, natively insensitive to red and yellow light, became sensitive to that part of the spectrum in proportion to their exposure to blue, violet and ultraviolet light, allowing Daguerreotypes and other photographic materials to be developed by bathing in strong red or yellow light rather than by chemical treatment. In practice this technique was rarely used."" (Wikipedia).‎

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‎"BERNOULLI, (JOHANN I) - THE TAUTOCRONE CURVE IN A MEDIA.‎

‎Méthode pour trouver les Tautochrones, dans des Milieux résistants, comme le Quarré des Vitesses.‎

‎(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1732). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1730"". Pp. 78-101.‎

‎First printing of Johann Bernoulli's importent paper in which he for the first time (Euler did it at the same time) solved the problem of finding the tautochrone in a medium that resists a body's motion directly as the square of the body's speed.After Huygens first discovered that the cylcoid was a tautochronous curve in vacuo according to the hypothesis of uniform gravity" Newton and Hermann have also given tautochrones following the hypothesis of non-uniform gravity acting, and pulling towards some fixed point as centre. Moreover, they have considered the motion to arise in a vacuum, with no resistance. Truly pertaining to resisting media, Newton has also shown that the cycloid is a tautochrone in a medium for which the resistance is proportional tothe speed moreover, as far as any other kinds resisting media are concerned, there has been no progress made either in roducing the curves themselves or in demonstrating possible tautochronism in them [The 3rd edition of the Principia that Euler refers to finally in 35 alters this view to include the type of resistance offered here. It may be of interest to the reader to observe that Johan. Bernoulli published a paper in the Memoire de l'Acad. Roy. des Sciences in 1730, also present in his Opera Omnia, T. III, p.173, with the title (in tra. from French): Method for Finding Tautochrones in Media Resisting as the Square of the Speed in which Euler does not get a mention.].‎

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‎"BESSEL, (FRIEDRICH WILHELM) - THE FIRST MEASURE OF THE DISTANCE TO A STAR.‎

‎Observations pour déterminer la parallaxe annuelle de la 61e étoile du Cygne. - Extrait d'une Lettre de M. Bessel à M. de Humboldt. Note de M.Arago sur le même sujet. (Séance du Lundi 5 Novembre 1838). (+) Nouvelles observations sur la parallaxe annu...‎

‎Paris, Bachelier, 1838 a. 1840. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 7, No 19 and Tome 10, No 17/18. With title-ages to vol. 7 and 10. Pp. (769-) 803 a. pp. (671-) 717. (Entire issues offered). Bessel's papers: pp. 785-793 a. pp. 703-710. Stamp on both titlepages. The second titlepage with a fes brownspots, otherwise clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of a milestone paper in astronomy, giving the solution of the great problem of distances in the universe which had baffled astronomers ever since the time of Copernicus, announcing the FIRST SUCCESSFUL DISPLACEMENT OR PARALLAX OF A FIXED STAR and hence deducing the FIRST RELIABLE DISTANCE OF THE EARTH TO A FIXED STAR. The parallax observed corresponded to ab. 600.000 times that of the earth from the sun. On these grounds Bessel calculated the distance to about 11 light years, and this was confirmed by fresh investigations by Bessel in 1839-40 (the second paper offered). In 1842-43 it was also confirmed by C.A.F. Peters at Pulkowa. It is the first published instance of the fathom-line thrown into celestial space.Bessel communicated his observations in Comptes Rendus, in a letter to Humboldt (the offered paper dated Nov. 5, 1838), in ""Monthly Notices"" in letter to J. Herschel, and in ""Astronomische Nachrichten"" Vol. 16, No 365-66 (pp. 65-96), 1838), where a more detail account was published.Ther paper ""Bestimmung der Entfernung des 61sten Stern des Schwans"" in ""Astronomische Nachrichten"" is dated at the end: Altona 1838, Dec. 13.Bessel's investigation was hailed by John Herschel when Bessel was awarded the R.A.S. gold medal ""The greatest and most glorious triumph which practical astronomy has ever witnessed"". ""For determining the parallax of 61 Cygni, Bessel selected two comparison stars of magnitude 9-10 at distances of roughly eight and twelve minutes of arc. 61 Cygni is a physical double star whose components differ in brightness by less than one magnitude. The distance of sixteen seconds of arc between the components favored the accuracy of the determination of the parallax because pointing could be carried out with two star images. After observing for eighteen months, by the fall of 1838 Bessel had enough measurements for the determination of a reliable parallax. He found that p = 0.314? with a mean error of ±:0.020?. This work was published in the Astronomische Nachrichten (1838), the first time the distance of a star became known. Bessel’s value for the parallax shows excellent agreement with the results obtained by extensive modern photographical parallax determinations,..."" (DSB).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1838 A. - Shapley & Howarth ""A Source Book in Astronomy"", pp. 216 ff.‎

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‎"BEDE, THE VENERABLE. - BEDA.‎

‎Opera qoutquot reperiri potuerunt omnia: Hac ultima impressione ornatus in lucem edita. 8 Tomi. - [THE FIRST COMPLETE BEDE]‎

‎Coloniae Agrippinae (Köln), Sumptibus Anton. Hierati et Ioan. Gymnici, 1612. Folio. Bound in two contemporary, uniform full vellum bindings with remains of silk-ties on boards. Some traces of use to extremities. Some pages evenly browned, some brownspotted. First two volumes richly illustrated with woodcut diagrams, musical notes, earth- and heaven-maps etc. in the text, numerous woodcut initials throughout, engraved title-page. (10) pp, columns 1-168 (84 pp.), pp. 169 - 322, columns 323 - 452 (65 pp.) + (1) f., 238 pp. + (2) ff., columns 1 - 500 (250 pp.) + (2) ff., columns 1 - 916 (458 pp.) + (1) f., columns 1 - 816 (408 pp) + (1) f., columns 1 - 852 (426 pp.) + (2) ff., columns 1 - 485 (243 pp.) + (2) ff., columns 1 - 968 (484 pp.), 55 ff. (Index).‎

‎Very rare, early, and apparently first complete edition of the seminal works by the ""Father of English History"", the venrable Bede. Bede’s most famous work, his ""An Ecclesiastical History of the English People"" (Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum)? begins with the invasion of the British Isles by Roman forces and is considered one of the most important historical records documenting Roman rule, Anglo-Saxon settlement and the evolution of the Church on the island. With its focus on Anglo-Saxon history, the work is considered a key foundational text in the forming of a national English identity. The ""Ecclesiastical History"" contains stories that serve as the only source documenting the conversion to Christianity of the Anglo-Saxon tribes. It tells the story of Britons from Julius Caesar’s invasion, to the time of Bede himself . He tells the story of battles, conversions and miracles performed by monks and bishops, and details Britain’s early history from the Roman invasion. He furthermore describes the organization and establishment of Christianity in the English church and covers the personal history of ?Holy Ethelwald and miracles of growth within the English church, such as the development of the bishopric. ""Bede’s works fall into three groups: grammatical and “scientific,” scriptural commentary, and historical and biographical. His earliest works included treatises on spelling, hymns, figures of speech, verse, and epigrams. His first treatise on chronology, De temporibus (“On Times”), with a brief chronicle attached, was written in 703. In 725 he completed a greatly amplified version, De temporum ratione (“On the Reckoning of Time”), with a much longer chronicle. Both these books were mainly concerned with the reckoning of Easter. His earliest biblical commentary was probably that on the Revelation to John (703?–709)" in this and many similar works, his aim was to transmit and explain relevant passages from the Fathers of the Church. Although his interpretations were mainly allegorical, treating much of the biblical text as symbolic of deeper meanings, he used some critical judgment and attempted to rationalize discrepancies. Among his most notable are his verse (705–716) and prose (before 721) lives of St. Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne. These works are uncritical and abound with accounts of miracles a more exclusively historical work is Historia abbatum (c. 725" “Lives of the Abbots”). In 731/732 Bede completed his Historia ecclesiastica. Divided into five books, it recorded events in Britain from the raids by Julius Caesar (55–54 BCE) to the arrival in Kent (597 CE) of St. Augustine of Canterbury. For his sources, he claimed the authority of ancient letters, the “traditions of our forefathers,” and his own knowledge of contemporary events. Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica leaves gaps tantalizing to secular historians. Although overloaded with the miraculous, it is the work of a scholar anxious to assess the accuracy of his sources and to record only what he regarded as trustworthy evidence. It remains an indispensable source for some of the facts and much of the feel of early Anglo-Saxon history."" (Encycl. Britt). Only three editions of Bede's Opera Omnia are known before Dr. Giles' edition from 1843 - 44. The first was printed in 1563 and the third in 1688. The 1688-edition constitutes the second edition of the present 1612-edition which is ""According to Dr. Henry, the only complete edition"" (Lowndes I:143). These three editions are also the only ones known to have been printed in folio (though Lowndes mentions the 1688-edition as 4to). The 1612-edition is the rarest. Some of the works contained in this edition are said not to be Bede's own, as some of the many scientific, richly illustrated works on geography, the heavens, the universe, music etc. bear small resemblance to his other works. Lowndes I:143, Brunet 1:731.‎

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