1901réf. 42079Leipzig, Veit & Comp., 1901-03. Lex8vo. Bound in 2 fine contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spines and with gilt lettering. A few minor scratches. A name cut from front free endpaper. XII,648"XIV,752 pp., textillustrations and 12 colourplates. Internally fine and clean.

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THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.Livre Rare Book

The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Vol. I-II: (Part one).

1833réf. 42095London, Charles Knight, 1833. Royal8vo. Contemp. full calf, gilt spine, broad gilt borders on covers and blindtooled borders. All edges gilt. 198,120 pp. and 24 + 15 fine steel-engraved portraits, mainly of scientists. Some brownspots.

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"YOUNG, THOMAS. - THE HYDRODYNAMICS OF THE BLOOD CIRCULATION.Livre Rare Book

The Croonian Lecture. On the Functions of the Heart and Arteries. Read November 10, 1808.

1809réf. 42121(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1809). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1809 - Part I. Pp. 1-31.First lower right corner a bit creased. Clean and fine, wide-margined..

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"DAVY, HUMPHRY. - INVENTION OF THE ""DAVY-LAMP""Livre Rare Book

On the fire-damp of coal mines, and on methods of lighting the mines so as to prevent its explosion. Read November 9, 1815. (And) An account of an invention for giving light in explosive mixtures of fire-damp in coal mines, by consuming the fire-damp....

1816réf. 42175(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1816). 4to. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1816 - Part I. Pp. 1-22 a. pp. 23-24 and 1 large folded engraved plate. showing details of the construction of the lamp. Clean and fine, wide-margined..

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"MILNE, J. and T. GRAY. - MAPPING THE SHAKING EARTH - THE INVENTION OF THE SEISMOGRAPHLivre Rare Book

On Seismic Experiments. Communicated by A.C. Ramsay. Received November 5, - Read December 8, 1881.

1883réf. 42216(London, Harrison and Sons, 1883). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1882, Volume 173 - 1883. - Pp. 863-883 and 1 plate. Margin of plate with small tears.Otherwise clean and fine.

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DAVY, HUMPHRY - THE DISCOVERY OF POTASSIUM AND SODIUM.Livre Rare Book

The Bakerian Lecture, on some new Phenomena of chemical Changes produced by Electricity,particularly the Decomposition of the fixed Alkalies, and the Exhibition of the new substances which constitute their bases" and on the general Nature of alkaline ...

1808réf. 42218(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1808). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1808 - Part I. Pp. 1-44.

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"DAVY, HUMPHRY - THE DISCOVERY OF HYDROGEN TELLURIDE.Livre Rare Book

The Bakerian Lecture for 1809. On some new Electrochemical Researches, on various Objects, particularly the metallic Bodies, from the Alkalies, and Earth, and on some Combinations of Hydrogene. Read November 16, 1809.

1810réf. 42219(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1810). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1810 - Part I. Pp. 16-74 and 2 engraved plates showing Davy's electrochemical apparatus for decomposing substances. The plates dampstained. Text fine and clean.

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"RAYLEIGH, LORD (J.W. STRUTT) and WILLIAM RAMSAY. - THE DISCOVERY OF ARGON.Livre Rare Book

Argon, a New Constituent of the Atmosphere. Received and Read January 31, 1895.

1895réf. 42221(London, Harrison and Sons, 1895). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 186 - I, Series A. Pp. 187-241 a. 8 textillustrations (apparatus). Fine and clean.

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"WOLLASTON, WILLIAM HYDE. - INVENTION OF THE GONIOMETER.Livre Rare Book

Description of a reflective Goniometer. Read June 8, 1809.

1809réf. 42249(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1809). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1809 - Part I. Pp. 253-258 and 1 engraved plate showing the Goniometer. Clean and fine.

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"HUGGINS, WILLIAM and W.A. MILLER. - HEAVEN AND EARTH BUILT OF THE SAME ELEMENTS.Livre Rare Book

On the Spectra of some of the Fixed Stars. Received April 28, - Read May 26, 1864. (+ Supplement:) On the Spectra of some of the Nebulae. A Supplement to the Paper ""On the Spectra of some of the Fixed Stars."" Received September 8, 1864, and printed i...

1864réf. 42260(London, Taylor and Francis, 1864). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 154 - Part II, pp. 413-435 a. pp. 437-444 and 2 lithographed plates.(1 plate showing the spectroscope which could be attached to his eight-innch telescope invented by Huggin's and Miller, the start of stellar spectroscopi, the other plate showing the obtained spectra of the nebulæ Aldebaran and Orionis).

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"HUGGINS, WILLIAM. - THE FIRST DETERMINATION OF THE MOVEMENT OF A STAR.Livre Rare Book

Further Observations on the Spectra of some of the Stars and Nebulae, with an Attempt to determine therefrom whether these Bodies are moving towards or from the Earth, also Observations on the Spectra of the Sun and of Comet II., 1868. received April ...

1868réf. 42262(London, Taylor and Francis, 1868). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 158 - Part II, pp. 529-564 and 1 lithographed plate. Clean and fine..

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"FARADAY, MICHAEL.. - ON THE VOLTAIC BATTERY.Livre Rare Book

Experimental Researches in Electricity. - Tenth Series. 16. On an improved form of the Voltaic Battery. 17. Some practical results respecting the construction and use of the Voltaic Battery. (Sections 1119-1160). Received June 16, - Read June 18, 1...

1835réf. 42285(London, Richard Taylor, 1835). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1835 - Part II. Pp. 263-274. Clean and fine.

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"FARADAY, MICHAEL.. - FARADAY'S DOCTRINE OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY.Livre Rare Book

Experimental Researches in Electricity. - Sixteenth Series. 24. On the source of power in the voltaic pile. i. Exiting electrolytes, &c. being conductors of thermo and feeble currents. ii. Inactive conducting circles containing an electrolytic fluid...

1840réf. 42287(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1840). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1840 - Part I. Pp. 61-91 and 1 engraved plate. + Pp. 93-127. Both papers Clean and fine.

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"FARADAY, MICHAEL. - THE MAGNECRYSTALLIC EFFECT.Livre Rare Book

Experimental Researches in Electricity. - Twenty-sixth Series. 32. Magnetic conducting power. i. Magnetic conduction. ii. Conducting polarity. iii. Magnecrystallic conduction. 33. Atmospheric magnetism. i. General principles (+) Twenty-seventh Ser...

1851réf. 42291(London, Richard Taylor, 1851). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1851 - Part I. Pp. 29-84, textillustr. and pp. 85-122, textillustr. Both papers clean and fine.

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"CAYLEY, ARTHUR. - THE CAYLEY-HAMILTON THEOREM ANNOUNCED - THE MATHEMATICS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS.Livre Rare Book

A Memoir on the Theory of Matrices. Received December 10, 1857, - Read January 14, 1858. (+) A Supplementary Memoir on the Theory of Matrices. Received October 24, - Read December 7, 1865.

1858réf. 42295(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1858 and Taylor and Francis, 1866. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Vol. 148 - Part I. Pp. 17-37, and Vol. 156 - Part I, Pp. 25-35. Clean and fine.

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"CAYLEY, ARTHUR. - THE THEORY OF FORMS (QUANTICS) - A NEW ASPECT OF NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY.Livre Rare Book

A Sixth Memoir upon Quantics. Received November 18, 1858, - Read anuary 6, 1859.

1859réf. 42296(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1859). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Vol. 149 - Part I. Pp. 61-90. Clean and fine.

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"ANDREWS, THOMAS. - THE ""CRITICAL TEMPERATURE"" OF GASES.Livre Rare Book

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

1870réf. 42299(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.

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HERSCHEL, WILLIAM. - INDICATION OF THE UNIVERSALITY OF NEWTON'S LAWS OF MOTION.Livre Rare Book

Account of the Changes that have happened, during the last Twenty-five Years, in the relative Situation of Double-stars" with an Investigation of the Cause to which they are owing. Read June 9, 1803.

1803réf. 42303(London, Bulwer and Co., 1803). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London."" Year 1803-Part II. Pp. 339-382 and 2 engraved plates.

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HAMILTON, WILLIAM ROWAN. - THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF LEAST ACTION - HAMILTON' S PRINCIPLE.Livre Rare Book

On a general Method in Dynamics" by which the Study of the Motions of all free Systems of attracting or repelling Points is reduced to the Search and Differentiation of one central Relation, or characteristic Function. Received April 1, - Read April 1...

1834réf. 42329London, Richard Taylor, 1834-35. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1834 - Part II. and 1835 - Part I. Both titlepages to the volumes present.Pp. (2),247-308 a. (2),95-144. Both papers clean and fine.

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"MUDGE, WILLIAM. - FIRST MEASUREMENT OF AN ARC OF THE MERIDIAN IN ENGLAND.Livre Rare Book

An Account of the Measurement of an Arc of the Meridian, extending from Dunnose, in the Isle of Wright, Latitude ....,to Clifton in Yorkshire, Latitude.., in the coursee of the Opertions carried on foor the Trigonometrical Survey of England, in the ye...

1803réf. 42330(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1803). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1803 - Part II. Pp. 383-508 and 8 engraved plates (3 folio size and folded, 1 map), depicting the apparatus for measuring.

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"DANIELL, J. FREDERIC. - THE DANIELL-CELL.Livre Rare Book

Further Obervations on Voltaic Combinations. In a Letter addressed to Michael Faraday. Received March 30, - Read April 6, 1837.

1837réf. 42342(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1837). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1837 - Part I. Pp. 141-160 and 1 engraved plate.

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"RUTHERFORD, ERNST. - THE MAGNETIC DETECTOR INVENTED - WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY MADE POSSIBLE.Livre Rare Book

The Magnetic Detector of Electrical Waves and some of its Applications. Communicated by J.J. Thomson. Received June 11, - Read June 18, 1896.

1897réf. 42381(London, Harrison and Sons, 1897). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1897, Vol. 189 - A. Pp. 1-24., texfigs.

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HERSCHEL, WILLIAM. - THE SUN AN INHABITED GLOBE.Livre Rare Book

Observations tending to investigate the Nature of the Sun, in order to find the Causes or Symptoms of its variable Emission of Light and Heat" with Remarks on the Use that may possibly be drawn from Solar Observations. Read April 16, 1801.

1801réf. 42388(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1801). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1801 - Part I. Pp. 265-318 and 2 folded engraved plates. Wide-margined. A few small marginal brownspots.

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"HERSCHEL, WILLIAM. - THE BASIS OF INTERFEROMETRIC IMAGING IN ASTRONOMY.Livre Rare Book

Experiments for ascertaining how far Telescopes will enable us to determine very small Angles, and to distinguish the real from the spurious Diameters of celestial and terrestrial Objects: with an Application of the Result ofthese Experiments to a ser...

1805réf. 42389(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1805). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1805 - Part I. Pp. 31-64 and 1 engraved plate. Clean and fine.

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"DARWIN, G.H. - A PIONEERING WORK IN COSMOLOGY BY THE ""FATHER OF GEOPHYSICS""Livre Rare Book

On the Secular Changes in the Elements of the Orbit of a Satellite revolving about a Tidally distorted Planet. Received December 8, - Read December 18, 1879.

1880réf. 42401(London, Harrison and Sons, 1880). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 171 - Part II. Pp. 713-891. A few textilustr. Clean and fine.