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1889Best.-Nr. 69842New York: D. Appleton and Company 1889. Hardcover. Good. Third edition with an appendix by Prof. T.G. Bonney D.Sc. F.R.S. F.G.S. 344 p. with three folding plates and the publisher's ads. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding with decorative gilt and black stamping. An ex-library copy with minimal markings: a bookplate to the front pastedown and a small numeric label to the spine. Minor creases to the folding plates. The top edge is a trifle dust stained with some mild foxing to the fore-edge. There is also a small bit of rubbing to the corners and tips. From the library of the esteemed American paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould 1941-2002. In his essay "Worm for a Century" from the collection Hen's Teeth and Horse's Teeth: Further Reflections in Natural History 1983 Gould argued that this Darwin's first book on a specific subject is essential to understanding his theoretical approach: "This book is about coral but it is also about historical reasoning. Vegetable mold formed fast enough to measure its rate directly; we capture the past by summing effects of small and observable present causes. But what if rates are too slow or scales too large to render history by direct observation of present processes For such cases we must develop a different method. Since large-scale processes begin at different times and proceed at diverse rates the varied stages of different examples should exist simultaneously in the present. To establish history in such cases we must construct a theory that will explain a series of present phenomena as stages of a single historical process. The method is quite general. Darwin used it to explain the formation of coral reefs. We invoke it today to infer the history of stars. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1874Best.-Nr. chd20bLondon: Smith Elder & Co. G : in good condition. Ex-lib. Library rebind with new eps. Tape repairs to maps. Page edges darkened. 1874. Second Edition Revised. Red hardback cloth cover. 200mm x 140mm 8" x 6". xx 278pp 6pp maps. 3 fold-out colour maps. . Smith, Elder & Co hardcover
1889Best.-Nr. 250357Folding map xx 344 pages 4 folding map. Original Green Cloth Freeman 277 Proceeds from the sale of this items go to the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles Smith, Elder & Co. hardcover
1896Best.-Nr. 031164New York: D. Appleton and Company 1896. Third . Half Leather - Hardbound. Very Good/No Jacket. 344 pages plus folding plates with contents being un-opened. Leather over spine and corners with marbled paper over boards. Top edge is gilded. Covers are a little rubbed. Book plates on front paste down. Very light general wear though overall a tight and clean copy. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1874Best.-Nr. RWeDARWI83London: Smith Elder & Co. 1874. 1874. 8vo. pp. xx 278. 6ads. with half-title. 3 folding maps 2 partly coloured. original cloth light foxing to outer leaves outer edge of map darkened & tatty & 1 short split along fold no loss. Hardcover. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1874. Hardcover
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2001Best.-Nr. DADAX0898752663University Press of the Pacific 2001-03-01. paperback. New. 5.00x0.91x8.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. University Press of the Pacific paperback
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1914Best.-Nr. 41545London 1914. No wrappers but stiched. All three papers contained in: "Philosophical Magazine" Sixth Series Vol. 27. No. 159. March 1914. The whole issue issue offered =no. 159: pp. 397-540 and 2 plates.Rutherford's paper.pp. 488-498. - Darwin's paper: pp. 499-506. - Bohr's paper: pp. 506-523. All clean and fine. First edition and first printing of all three papers. Rutherford in this paper for the first time identifies the hydrogen nucleus and called it the 'positive electron'. He later called it 'the proton' . In his definitive paper of 1911 he estimated the radius of the nucleus a hundred thousand times smaller than that of an atom. Darwin in his paper offered here gave a more precise measure.In the first lines of the paper Rutherford outlines the content "The present paper and and the accompanying paper by Mr. C. Darwin the second paper offered here deal with certain points in connection with the "nucleus" theory of the atom which were purposely omitted in my first communication on that subject Phil. Mag. May 1911. A brief account is given of the later investigations which have been made to test the theory and of the deductions which can be drawn from them. At the same time a brief statement is given of recent observations on the passage of alpha particles through hydrogen which throw importent light on the dimensions of the nucleus." - Rutherford had studies alpha-particles intensely in the years before 1914 and proved quite conclusively that the individual particle was a helium atom with its electrons removed. The alpha particles were like the positive rays that had been discovered by Goldstein 1886 and now in 1914 the paper offered Rutherford suggested that the simplest positive rays must be those obtained from the hydrogen and that these must be the fundamentall positively-charged particle. He names it a 'positive electron'.Darwin in the paper offered "concluded from the known data:"No force proportional to some power of the distance other than the inverse square can give the dependence the Rutherford scattering cross section on the initial velocity" and he then calculated the distance of closest alpha-particle-nucleus approach.The paper by Niels Bohr relates to "The Stark effect". In 1913 appeared "an importent new discovery: when atomic hydrogen is exposed to a static electrical field its spectral lines split the amount of splitting being proportional to thefield strenght the linear Stark effect. After Rutherford read this news in "Nature" he at once wrote to Bohr:'I think it is rather up to you at the present time to write something on.electric effects.'" A. Pais. Bohrs paper on The Stark effect appeared in 1914 the paper offered here. - Rosenfeld. Niels Bohr' publications No. 10. unknown
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1942Best.-Nr. 182610Racine Wisconsin : Whitman Publishing Co. c.1942 1942. First Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned and worn as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight bright and clean impression. The classic Big Little Books design. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 424 pages; Description: 424 p. : illus. ; 12 cm. Subjects: The Shadow Newspaper cartoon character - United States -- Comic books strips etc. Juvenile fiction -- Children's books -- Children's literature illustrated. Illustrations and text on facing pages. Series: Better little book 1495. References: Lowery L. F. 'Lowery's The collector's guide to big little books and similar books' ; Thomas J. S. 'Big Little Book price guide'. Racine, Wisconsin : Whitman Publishing Co. c.1942 hardcover
20118vo., with coloured plates; black cloth, upper board elaborately blocked in gilt and orange, gilt back, gold endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. Splendid FS edition of one of the greatest scientific classics of the twentieth century. ALREADY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
