New York; Nd(ca.1928): E.P. Dutton and Co. Octavo. 249 pages, index, and 14 diagrams, translated from the French by H.T. Flint. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929 after the wave-like behavior of matter was first experimentally demonstrated in 1927. De Broglie suggested in 1924 that particles..... More
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1929. First Edition. Octavo. 2nd printing. 91 pages. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944) was an influential astronomer, mathematician, and writer. He was responsible for the 1919 expedition that provided evidence supporting Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. He also investigated the interior of the stars and..... More
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London: Taylor and Francis, 1885. First Edition. Octavo. . vii, [1], 524 pages, 5 plates (3 folding). Numerous scientific articles especially on electromagnetism and the electromotive forces in the Voltaic cell. Bosanquet. Lodge and a host of major experiments in the search to precisely identify electromagnetism and its uses of..... More
New York: Kraus Reprint Co, 1977. Octavo. Priestley had become like Franklin, internationally known. He achieved wide-spread fame by the publication of a succession of volumes on the nature of air and the chemistry of gases, called Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air (1774-1790). Oxygen and the production..... More
New York: D. Appleton, 1873. First Edition. Octavo. 194 pages, (10)pp. ads at rear, index. Tyndall had already become a great friend of Joseph Henry and Louis Agassiz so these lectures on heat had his latest adjustments. He had not originally planned to publish these early findings but the opportunity..... More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1887. Octavo. 40 pages, with three folding plates. This account of the Physical Balance was intended originally as a chapter of a book on practical physics for the use of students at the Clarendon laboratory. A Since the publication of the complete course may be..... More