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1942réf. 010238Columbus OH: A Thesis Presented for the Degree of Master of Science Ohio State University 1942. Book. Near Fine. Two Ring Binder. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1 title 5 a-e 227 pages. Mimeograph printing on rectos only. Includes 456 bibliographical references. The second printing apparently reproduced in 100 copies although no copies located in commerce and only a single copy the original mss. dissertation at the University of CinCinnati located at OCLC. Near Fine corner creases and small tears to stiff cardboard binding a scribbled drawing verso of final page.Composed with the advice and guidance of Dr. Laurence L. Quill. "A second printing of this book was the idea of Dr. C.L. Rollinson late of Monsanto Unit 3 Dayton Ohio and now at the University of Maryland. It was Dr. Rollinson's thought that this book would serve the following purposes: 1 To provide a wealth of practical examples of techniques of radiochemistry there seems to be no other collection of this sort available. 2 To provide a detailed technical treatment of the work leading to the discovery of nuclear fission. 3 To provide a collection of the published data on nuclear fission from the discovery to the beginning of the work of the Manhattan Project." A RARE and early work on nuclear fission. . A Thesis Presented for the Degree of Master of Science, Ohio State University Hardcover books
1947réf. 010237No Place: Michigan State College 1947. Book. Near Fine. Two Ring Binder. First Thus. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto viii 133 leaves : with illustrations.Uniform Title: Seltenen Erden vom Standpunkte des Atombaues English: The Structure of Matter in Single Presentations edited by M. Born and J. Franck Berlin Julius Springer Publisher 1927. Bound in stiff cardboard binder Near Fine pages printed rectos only with manuscript edits and additions in ink on almost every page made by someone with knowledge of both the science and the references. George Charles de Hevesy was a Hungarian radiochemist winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Copley Medal recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals. He also co-discovered the element hafnium.Wikipedia RARE OCLC locates only a single copy at the Univ. of Cincinnati. OCLC: 863634712 . Michigan State College Hardcover books
1935réf. 010247Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1935. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First Edition x 492 pages original red cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good no jacket spine a hint faded hinge starting at half title page interior clean and unmarked the ownership signature of William B. Jensen Emeritus Professor of Chemistry and curator of the Oesper Collection on the History of Chemistry at the University of Cincinnati at front paste down. SCARCE in the First Edition. Millikan won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 "for the measurement of the elementary electric charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect". University of Chicago Press Hardcover books
1932réf. 010687Warszawa: Z Subwencji Funduszu Kultury Narodowej 1932. Book. Very Good Plus. Printed Wrappers. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition of Stefan Banach's most important work foundational in functional analysis which introduced the concept of normed linear spaces which are now known as Banach spaces. This work transformed functional analysis into a distinct field of mathematics. The concept of Banach spaces and the later development of Hilbert spaces a specific type of Banach space are fundamental to the mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics.Wikipedia Very Good Plus copy in the original printed wrappers the text in French but printed in Poland. The spine and edges of the wrappers sunned to brown else clean tight and unmarked internally. vii 254 pp. . Z Subwencji Funduszu Kultury Narodowej Paperback books
1804réf. 4488London: J Mawman 1804. First Edition. original paper backed boards. A very good copy with some wear to the spine; feint tide mark to corners of the frontis. 8vo xv 1 - Directions for the bookbinder 1 - 562 2 - adverts pp. 9 engraved plates. An important work in the history of thermodynamics that established several fundamental laws of heat radiation i.e. that the emissivity and absorptivity for any surface are equal; that the emissivity of a surface increases with the increase in reflectivity; that the intensity of heat radiated from a surface is proportional to the sine of the angles of the rays to the surface. He was also able to distinguish between conduction and radiation of heat. Leslie's research and this book also played an important role in the early nineteenth century debate about whether heat was a form of motion or matter. In chapter 19 Leslie describes some of the apparatus notably a photometer that he used in his experiments two distinct types are illus. He appears to have been a particularly adept designer of experiments and apparatus. DSB VIII 261 - 262 ; Cardwell Watt to Clausius pp. 107-112; Roberts p. 203; Neville II p. 57. J Mawman hardcover books
1856réf. 010227London: Richard Taylor and William Francis 1856. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition in original green embossed cloth with bright gilt lettering at spine Very Good corners turned in widely scattered small spots of browning hinges tight. With three engraved plates one folding and errata slip tipped at p. 445. The inked signature of Robert Siegfried front paste down. viii 496 pp. Richard Taylor and William Francis Hardcover books
1897réf. 4401Leipzig: J A Barth 1897-1907. First Edition. Original three-quarter leather and marbled boards. . A very good copy. 4to. There is a frontis. of Helmholtz and numerous text illus. . The complete lectures on physical science by the famous scientist that was commenced shortly after his death. It contains important addtions to key lectures. The volumes were published out of sequence causing later volumes in the set to be issued prior to the first. The first division or 50 pp. introduction to the entire set was published in 1903 and is bound in a leather that appears slightly darker than the rest of the set and has a different ownership signature than the balance of the set though all volumes are uniform in what is a publisher's three quarter leather binding. Barth continued to issue the volumes through 1925 varying the impression dates as issued. An x-library set was sold at Christie's in 1996 but it was made up from later prtgs. See DSB; see NUC for a handful of holdings. J A Barth hardcover books
1857réf. 1064Paris: Mallet-Bachelier 1857. First Edition. Text is in half leather; folio is boxed. The text is rebacked; inst. blind stamp on title; folio with the original front printed wrapper rear wrapper wanting with stamp and institutional bookplate - NO other accessioning; blank margin of one plate with dust smudges and some chipping. 4to xxii 2 - blank 4 1 - 268 pp.; folio atlas 4 pp. 12 lithographic plates. One of the great experimental and theoretical works of hydraulics of the 19th century. D'Arcy's contributions lay in the conclusive demonstration that resistance to fluid flow depended upon the type and condition of the boundary material. An important theoretical work. See Rouse pp. 169-173; Roberts p. 86; Tokaty p. 93. Mallet-Bachelier hardcover books
1965réf. 010746Rome: Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 1965. Journal. Near Fine. Printed Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Association Copy. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by author at title page "To Willies Barnstone Glad that we are alive! Alair. Feb. 67". Near Fine. Octavo. In original grey printed wrappers. Spine foxed. Top of front wrapper INSCRIBED in ink in Barnstone's hand "also appeared in: Brain and Conscious Experience Ed. John Eccles Springer-Verlog New York Inc. 1966.". A scientific offprint paginated 667-703. Alair de Oliveira Gomes was a professor of the Philosophy of Science and then of Contemporary Art before establishing himself as a pioneer of homoerotic photography. Both he and Barnstone were deeply inspired by classical Greek culture and approached their disciplines similarly influenced by musical structures exhibiting the musical features of their non-musical art forms. Gomes's academic publications and his signature on items other than his famous photographs are RARE. . Pontificia Academia Scientiarum Paperback books
1673réf. 5022Kempten: Per Rudolphum Dreherr 1673. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum small repairs to foot of the spine re-cased endpapers renewed. Internally this copy is in fine condition with only minor faults as follows: half-title soiled small wormholes in first four lvs. a peppering of small wormholes to final four index lvs. and final blank leaf. Marginal hole not affecting text to leaf B3 margins of portrait leaf foxed and with light stain at foot. The volume was re-cased probably to remove a second slim work judging by the size of the overlapping vellum fore-edges of the binding. Provenance: Engraved armorial bookplate of Augustin Erath 1648-1719 German Augustinian Canon theologian translator. The "Phonurgia" is illustrated with an added engraved allegorical title by Georg Andreas Wolfgang 1631-1716 after Felix Cheurier an engraved title vignette an engraved portrait of Emperor Leopold I by Wolfgang after Franz Herman two engraved plates seventeen engravings and numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations in the text musical notation ornamental woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials. Among the illustrations are Michele Todini's "claviorganum" one of the most technologically advanced keyboards of Kircher's time Kircher's own musical invention the "Aeolian Harp" and the invention that inspired the book Kircher's "Speaking Trumpet" the megaphone shown at the shrine of St. Eustace in Monterella. Various chambers with peculiar acoustical properties are also depicted such as a Vitruvian amphitheater the courtyard at the Villa Simonetta in Milan and the "ears" of the Tyrant Dionysius of Syracuse. There is also a depiction of one of Kircher's "talking statues" his 17th century intercom. "The 'Phonurgia Nova' is in part Kircher's response to Sir Samuel Morland 1625-95 a fellow of the Royal Society of London who claimed.to have invented the megaphone. Numerous testimonies from Kircher's admirers such as James Alban Gibbs and Gaspar Schott are appended to the work defending Kircher's claim as the inventor of the tuba stentorophonica as Morland called it. Kircher had indeed written extensively on the device in his 'Musurgia' and had been using the 'speaking trumpet' for years at the shrine of Mentorella to call people to services. The 'Phonurgia' treats the science and applications of sound amplification and echoes. It was the first book published in Europe devoted entirely to acoustics." Merrill. "The importance that the Jesuits placed on sensory experience as part of worship had a significant impact on Kircher's treatment of music. Within the devotional framework music was valued precisely because of its capacity to move the passions to produce strong emotional effects that under properly controlled conditions were designed to ravish the soul and lead the faithful closer to the divine. Indeed Kircher declared that the goal of all music was to move the affections and this belief goes a long way toward explaining his interest in classifying all the various emotional or affective states that music can imitate. Kircher's was the first systematic account of the 'doctrine of affections' which underpinned early opera and oratorio and was one of the fundamental assumptions of later Baroque composers such as Bach and Handel."Penelope Gouk "Making Music Making Knowledge: The Harmonious Universe of Athanasius Kircher". Per Rudolphum Dreherr hardcover books
