The Story of Spin.
Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xii, 258 pp, 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket as issued. Fine. More
Science & Technology
The Word Problem in Semi-Groups With Cancellation.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1950. Hardcover. First Edition. Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, Vol. 52, No. 2, September 1950. pp. 491-505. 4to. Ex-Library. Red cloth library binding with gold embossed titling to spine, call number pasted at base, library stamp at head and foredge of text block. Library bookplate on front pastedown, card pocket at rear. Very clean within.
Alan Turing's (1912-1954) last paper. Turing gained posthumous fame for his work in early computer theory and the practical application of those theories in the development of the Colossus computer that was responsible for the breaking the German Enigma codes during World War II. After the War, Turing began to contemplate his earlier paper, "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem," (Proceedings of..... More
Contributions to Molecular Physics in the Domain of Radiant Heat.
London: Logmans, Green, and Co., 1872. Hardcover. First Edition. xiv, 446 pp. 8vo. Rebound in utilitarian brown cloth with gold embossed titling to spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, clean within. Illustrated with two foldinig plates in Fine condition. Very Good. More
GERM THEORY & TYNDALLIZATION I: "The Optical Deportment of the Atmosphere in Relation to the Phenomena of Putrefaction and Infection." (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 166 for the Year 1876 Part I & Part II, pp. 27-74).
London: Royal Society of London, 1876. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. x, 741 pp. 99 plates. 4to. Recent brown three quarter leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy title patch with gold embossed titling, gold lines offsetting bands, decorative stamp in each compartment without titling. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound. The occasional library stamp as it is an ex-library volume, rebound.
John Tyndall (1820-1893) described his experiments with a hermetically sealed chamber in which the atmospheric dust had been allowed to settle; sterilized infusions protected within this chamber remained uninfected for months, while similar infusions exposed to air all showed bacterial growth. Tyndall's researches, along with those of Pasteur, dealt the final blow to the doctrine..... More
GERM THEORY & TYNDALLIZATION I: "The Optical Deportment of the Atmosphere in Relation to the Phenomena of Putrefaction and Infection." (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 166 for the Year 1876 Part I & Part II, pp. 27-74).
London: Royal Society of London, 1876. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. x, 741 pp. 99 plates. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
John Tyndall (1820-1893) described his experiments with a hermetically sealed chamber in which the atmospheric dust had been allowed to settle; sterilized infusions protected within this chamber remained uninfected for months, while similar infusions exposed to air all showed bacterial growth. Tyndall's researches, along with those of Pasteur, dealt the final blow to the doctrine of spontaneous generation and advanced the understanding of Germ Theory. Very Good..... More
GERM THEORY & TYNDALLIZATION II: "Further Researches on the Deportment and Vital Persistence of Putrefactive and Infective Organisms from a Physical Point of View" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 167 for the Year 1877 Part I & Part II, pp. 149-206).
London: Royal Society of London, 1878. Hardcover. First Edition. v, 756 pp. 31 plates. 4to. Recent brown three quarter leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy title patch with gold embossed titling, gold lines offsetting bands, decorative stamp in each compartment without titling, blind embossed borders to front and rear boards. Table of Contents has a horizontal tear mid-page on p.[v], triangular piece missing from lower right corner of p. 163. Interiors clean. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
John Tyndall (1820-1893) found that increasing temperature on objects killed or reduced the number of endospores produced by bacteria that lead to infection. The autoclave was developed out of this research and Tyndall's work, along with Louis Pasteur..... More
Six Lectures on Light Delivered in America in 1872-1873.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873. Hardcover. First Edition. 277 pp. 8vo. Burgundy cloth covered boards with blind embossed border to front and rear board, gold embossed tilting spine. Cover cloth has split along hinge on front board, tear across spine 1-3/4" from foot of spine, flapping but now in protective mylar cover. Small losses at head and foot of spine. Previous owner's name in ink on first free endpaper, clean within.
Published form of lectures on science given by Tyndall in the United States. Good. More
"The Debt of Science to Darwin" (The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXV; pp. 420-432 pp.).
New York: The Century Co., 1883. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. viii, 960 pp. 4to. Brown three-quarter leather bindings with peddled cloth insets to front and rear boards. Considerable scuffing and wear overall. Black title patches to spine with gold embossed tilting. Interior clean. Good. More
Studies in the Theory of Descent (2 Volumes).
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882. Half Leather. First Edition. vxxvi, 400, 401-729 pp. 8 color plates (2 in VOlume I, 6 in Volume II). 8vo. Ex-library with brown leather spines with gold embossed titling and call numbers at base, brown cloth cover boards with "City of Sheffield Public Libraries" blind stamped in circle on each cover board. Card pocket on front pastedown of each volume. Blue library stamp throughout each volume. Very Good. More
Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems (2 Volumes).
Oxford, England: The Clarendon Press, 1891/1892. Hardcover. Second Edition/First Edition. Volume I: Second Edition, 1891, xv, 471, 8 (ads) pp.; Volume II: First Edition, 1892, v, [5], 226, 76 (ads) pp. 8vo. Blue cloth publisher bindings that have sharp gold embossed titling to the spines. Very minor scuffing to covers, minor fraying at head of spines, now in mylar dust jackets. Black endpapers with the gutters just beginning to show wear. Previous owner's name on front pastedown of each volume with a hand inked call number, which is the only indication of being ex-library. Many pages in Volume II uncut at top of of pages.
Volume II contains an English translation of Weismann's "Amphixis", Garrison-Morton 234 (citing 1st German ed, 1891); "By 'amphiximis' Weismann meant..... More
An Essay on Dew, and Several Appearances Connected With It.
Philadelphia, PA: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1838. Hardcover. First Edition. First U.S. Edition. 71 pp. 8vo. Brown pebbled faux-leather boards with gold titling to spine, original volume has been rebound. Light foxing within, text block has been trimmed when it was rebound.
William Charles Wells (1757-1817) was a physician and physicist who conducted numerous experiments on friost and dew. Wells first believed that dew and frost were the causes of air that was a few degrees colder than the ground. He began to experiment and changed his theory when he realized that a combination of temperature, temperature change, and heat being conducted by various materials on the ground caused the condensate that resulted in dew or frost. Very Good. More
An Essay on Dew, and Several Appearances Connected With It.
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1866. Hardcover. As. vi, 152 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth boards with blind embossed borders, brown leather spine with five raised bands from earlier rebinding, gold embossed titling to spine. Slight darkening of pages due to quality of paper, quite clean overall. Previous owner's name in ink on first free endpaper and title page. 23 pp.of Casella catalog of meteorological instruments at rear.
William Charles Wells (1757-1817) was a physician and physicist who conducted numerous experiments on friost and dew. Wells first believed that dew and frost were the causes of air that was a few degrees colder than the ground. He began to experiment and changed his theory when he realized that a combination of temperature, temperature change, and..... More
The Visible College: A Collective Biography of British Scientists and Socialists of the 1930s.
London: Allen Lane, 1978. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 376 pp. 8vo. Slight scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, now in mylar cover. Light penciled notes within.
This book was sent to Eric Homberger with the request from The Economist to write a review of the book. Also laid in is a handwritten note from the author to Eric Homberger thanking him for providing a citation for an article Weskey found helpful. Very Good / Very Good. More
INVENTION OF THE STEREOSCOPE: "Contributions to the Physiology of Vision. Part the First. On Some Remarkable, and Hitherto Unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 128 for the Year 1838 Part I & Part II, pp. 371-394).
London: Royal Society of London, 1838. Hardcover. First Edition. ix, [1]-59, [1]-414, [8] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Also contains J. Frederic Daniell's article, "Fourth Letter on Voltaic Combinations, with Reference to the Mutual Relations of the Generating and Conducting Surfaces." (pp. 41-56). Also contains Michael Faraday's articles, "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eleventh, Supplementary Note, Twelfth, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Series" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 128 for the Year 1838 Part I & Part II, pp. 1-40, 79-82, 83-124, 125-168, 265-282). Faraday makes an early step toward the discovery of the..... More
WHEATSTONE BRIDGE: “The Bakerian Lecture -- An Account of Several New Instruments and Processes for Determining the Constants of a Voltaic Circuit” (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 133 for the Year 1843 Part I & Part II, pp. 303-327).
London: Royal Society of London, 1838. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1]-336, [2] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound. Crumpling and tears to p. 37/38, does not impact this article.
Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eighteenth Series" (pp. 17-32)
Also contains William Robert Grove's “On the Gas Voltaic Battery. Experiments Made with a View of Ascertaining the Rationale of Its Action and Its Application to Eudiometry” (pp. 91-112). Very Good. More
WORMHOLES & QUANTUM FOAM: “Geons” (Physical Review: Volume 97 No. 2 pp. 511-536).
Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1955. Wraps. First Edition. 255-570 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are clean and crisp.
In 1955, American theoretical physicist John Wheeler (1911–2008) coined the term “wormhole” and developed the now-familiar wormhole diagram and also used the term "quantum foam" for the first time. Very Good. More
At Home in the Universe.
Woodbury, NY: The American Institute of Physics, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. 317 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
A New Theory of the Earth.
New York: Arno Press, 1978. Hardcover. Facsimile Edition. [2], 388, [5], [2] ads. 8vo. Brown boards with blue embossed titling to spine and cover board. Light stain along foredge of text block, interior clean and crisp.
A very nicely done facsimile reprint of Whiston's famous work on the origin and evolution of the earth. Fine. More
A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (2 Volumes).
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. Hardcover. First Edition. xxiii, 415, xiii, 474 pp. 8vo. Red cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Top edges of text block gilt. Clean and crisp within. Very Good. More
A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity: The Classical Theories & The Modern Theories 1900-1926 (2 Volumes).
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1951. Hardcover. Revised Edition. Second Printing, 1958. xiv, 434, xi, 319 pp. 8vo. Dark red cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Previous owner's name in ink on the pastedown of each volume, otherwise very clean copies. Fine. More
CONTINENTAL DRIFT: “Did the Atlantic Close and then Re-Open?” (Nature 211, pp. 676-681).
London: Macmillan and Co., 1963. Hardcover. First Edition. 1434, LV pp. 4to. Green library binding, ex-library with stamp of "Technical Library, U.S. Naval Propellant Plant, Indian Head, Maryland" on first free endpaper, title page, and final free endpaper. No other library markings present Clean within.
Wilson first proposes the theory of "Continental Drift."
Also contains James Peeble's “Origin of the Microwave Radio Background” (pp. 574-575) Peebles was named a Nobel Laureate in Physics in 2019 for his theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology. Very Good. More
Theoria Generationis (1759).
Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1896. Wraps. As. 95, [2] pp. 12mo. Light wear and scuffing to covers, some chipping at edges, encased in custom mylar dust jacket. Folding plate illustration at rear. Text in German. Very Good. More
DO THE EYES FOLLOW YOU? "On the Apparent Direction of Eyes in a Portrait." (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 114 for the Year 1824, Part I & Part II, pp. 247-256).
London: Royal Society of London, 1824. Quarter Leather. First Edition. iv, 498, 10 [19] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
William Hyde Wallston indicates at the outset of his article that "portrait painting is not altogether a fit subject to be brought before the Royal Society..." but goes on to explain that his paper looks at the rules of perspective which is purely mathematical. Five plates follow the paper, with two having movable sheets to show shift in perspective. Very Good. More
“Experiments on the Chemical Production and Agency of Electricity” (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 91 pp. 427-434).
London: Royal Society of London, 1801. Wraps. First Edition. Extract. 427-434 pp. 8vo. Toning from age, slight chipping to spine.
English chemist William Hyde Wollaston (1766 - 1828) conducted experiments in 1801 that led him to propose that Volta’s pile created electricity through a chemical reaction, the correct answer and contrary to the Volta's contact theory. Very Good. More
FIRST EXTRA-SOLAR PLANET: “A Planetary System Around the Millisecond Pulsar PSR1257 + 12” First Exoplanet. (Nature; Vol. 355, No. 6356, pp. 145-147).
New York: Macmillan Magazines, 1992. Wraps. First Edition. Typical magazine format. Ex-Library with two library stickers affixed to front cover. Light scuffing. Clean within. Housed in a custom folding case with gold embossed titling to spine.
First published results of the discovery of first confirmed extra-solar planet. Very Good. More