Varios 1888 - 99" spine title. Los Fundamentos de la Geometria y el Conocimiento del Espacio & others. Sammelband Signed
ref. 0000414Sammelband bound pamphlets. Collection of separately published pamphlets folding plates & extracts from periodicals bound in a 4to half black morocco album. A manuscript note in ink on the ffep translated from the French describes the contents as "individual works collected as a souvenir of Buenos Aires for our friend Pierre Michel-Levy 10/11/1904." Signed by Duclout. Binding worn: rubbed upper cover hanging by a cord contents generally very good one plate with long closed tear. Contents include: Conferencia final del curso de Teoria de la elasticidad dictado en le Fac de Ciencias Fisico-Matemaáticas de le Universidad de la Capital Buenos Aires: G Kraft 1888 8vo original wraps; 33 pp. Republica Argentina: Deuda publica exterior y capitales Europeos empleados por sociedades anonimas Buenos Aires: Felix Lajouane 8vo original wraps; 24 pp. Estudio sobre las hipotesis mecanicas que sirven de base a la teoria electro-magnetica de la luz de Maxwell Buenos Aires: Pablo E Coni 1892 8vo reprinted from los Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 26 pp. Los fundamentos de la geometria y el conocimiento del espacio Buenos Aires: Pablo E Coni 1893 Tall 8vo original wraps; 118 pp plus 13 folding plates. Théorie du flambage des pièces élastiques comprimées: Extrait du cours d'élasticité de la faculté des sciences exactes physiques et mathématiques de Buenos-Ayres Paris: np Imprimerie Chaix 1896 8vo original wraps an extract from the 1896 Memoires de la Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de France; 45 pp. Various tipped-in extracts from Argentine periodicals including "La Biblioteca" and "La Ingeniera" from 1897 and 1898 on subjects as diverse as wireless telegraphy the filling and dredging of canals the testing of various South American woods with numerous microscopic cross-section photographs and numerous folding plates The collection concludes with a tipped in biographical article in Spanish which is translated and provided in part below: "Referred to as the "Champion of Relativity" Jorge born Georges Duclout 1854 – 1927 was the first to lecture on relativity in Argentina In 1922 the University of Buenos Aires Council approved his motion to send an invitation to fellow Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule alumnus Albert Einstein to visit Argentina and give a course of lectures on his theory of relativity The visit took place three years later in March – April 1925 Although by then Duclout was aging and in ill health a memorable visit took place between the two men The visit also produced the "Unpublished Opening Lecture for Einstein's Course on Relativity Theory in Argentina 1925" hardcover books
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