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1797045204<p>Paris: Che Bossange Masson & Besson 1797. Second Edition. . Leather Bound. Good. Octavo. 426 pages. Hardcover bound in full leather with gilt tooling on the spine and with gilt ruling near the edges of the boards. The binding is worn but sound with secure hinges. There is a chip in the leather on the front cover The title page has two dates; one is 1797 and the other is "An. V" "Anno V" for Year 5 for the French Republican date of the Napoleonic Era. Illustrated with 15 folding copperplate engravings. Text is toned and in some places quite browned. Text is in French. Volume 3 only. <br /><br /></p> Che Bossange, Masson & Besson hardcover
0656254300.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1945032853Amsterdam: N. V. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij 1945. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fair. 167 Pp Stellingen Thesis Summary Laid In Loosely. Worn Spine Perished Covers Detached But Present. Ownership Signature Of Leiden Professor Of Physics H. A. Kramers At Top Of Front Cover; Three Of His Publications Are Cited In The Bibliography. Pencil "Broer" On Half Title Not In Kramers' Hand Possibly Signed By Broer. Marginalia On Pp 14 15 And 20 Appear To Be In Hand Of Jan Korringa Assistant To Kramers Later A Prominent Physics Professor In The U. S. <br/> <br/> N. V. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij paperback
1979034202New York / London: Peebles Press Intl 1979. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine DJ. 219 Pp. Brown Boards. First Printing. Fine In Near Fine Dj Priced $12.95 At Top Of Front Flap Bottom Corner Of Front Flap Clipped. <br/> <br/> Peebles Press Intl hardcover
ria9780190681340_inpHardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The moon landing of 1969 stands as an iconic moment for both the United States and humankind. The familiar story focuses on the journey of the brave astronauts who brought home Moon rocks and startling photographs. But Apollo''s full a hardcover
1967PH-19U.K.: Pergamon Press 1967. Comprehensive classic text contains detailed technical papers of a symposium held at Delft The Netherlands September 1965 presenting over 100 contributions from international scientists covering a broad range of topics including: wave propogation; waveguides; overmoded and beam waveguides; surface waves; propogation in non-linear media; antennas; scattering and diffraction; statistical optics and coherence; etc. 1099 pgs. Illustrated. A few minor small closed tears on the dustjacket edges; minimal shelfwear. Dustjackets in mylar. Heavy item. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Pergamon Press Hardcover
2004034775Starkville Ms: Basic Research Press 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/As New. Iii 137 Pp. Red Cloth. As New In As New Jacket. <br/> <br/> Basic Research Press hardcover
1983059944Cambridge / London / New York: Cambridge University Press 1983. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 432 Pp. Hardcover. First Printing. Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket. A Single Archivally Repaired 1 1/2" Closed Tear At Top Of Front Panel A Vertical Crease On Front Flap. <br/> <br/> Cambridge University Press hardcover
1983HS-35Cambridge England: Cambridge University Press 1983. Classic comprehensive text presents a distinctive collection of essays discussions and personal descriptions of evolution based on discussions at the may 1980 International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics held at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia Illinois. Primary focus of this text is on the development of cosmic-ray physics and quantum field theory in the 1930's and 1940's drawing on research conducted in the U.S. Japan Great Britain Germany France and the USSR. Major contributors include: J.Schwinger V.F.Weisskopf S.Hayakawa C.D.Anderson Paul A.M. Dirac W.E.Lamb B.B.Rossi R.E.Marshak G.Bernardini etc. 412 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar. Very minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cambridge University Press Hardcover
71176Leipzig S. Hirzel 1887. . Von den Farben u. ihrer Entstehung. Von der Zusammenstellung der Farben.Mit dem Vorwort zur 1. Auflage 1866. - Ernst Wilhelm Brücke 1819-1892 war 1849-1890 Professor für Physiologie an der Universität Wien. Dort wurden ihm höchste Ehrungen zuteil u.a. die Erhebung in den erblichen Adelsstand 1873 1879 wurde er Rektor der Universität Wien u. zum Mitglied des Herrenhauses des österreichischen Reichsrates ernannt vgl. ADB 47 S. 273 ff.; NDB 2 S. 655. - Vors. leicht stockfl. letztes Bl. mit Knicksp.; gutes Exemplar Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1887. unknown
1976173754London: The Chemical Society 1976. Dust jacket with lightly sun faded spine and burgundy cover with gilt lettering on spine and upper board in very good clean condition. Minor red pen underlining on pages v 301-305 360-377 383 otherwise pages are clean and bright. Library plate on front inside cover. Illustrated with diagrams schemes and tables. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Used. The Chemical Society Hardcover
1976173755London: The Chemical Society 1976. Dust jacket with sun faded spine and burgundy cover with gilt lettering on spine and upper board in very good clean condition. Minor red pen underlining and marks throughout the text. Library plate on front inside cover. Illustrated with diagrams schemes and tables. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Used. The Chemical Society Hardcover
1981PH-282New York: John Wiley & Sons 1981. Classic text presents a detailed monograph covering the uncoventional hidden asumptions prejudices presuppositions and points of semantic confusion underlying the nature of the General Theory of Relativity. 174 pgs. Dustjacket in mylar. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Wiley & Sons Hardcover
1966032818Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1966. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Xi 223 Pp. Red Cloth Gilt. Fine In Fine Dj. "A Systematic Exposition Of Classical Thermodynamics Against A Background Of General Physical Theory On A Purely Phenomenological I. E. Non-Statistical Level." Name Stamp Of Caltech Professor Milton S. Plesset On Front Endpaper. <br/> <br/> Cambridge University Press hardcover
1864010636London: Trubner & Co. 1864. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First British Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First British Edition from the then last German eighth including the "Advertisement by the Editor" and the " Introductory Letter" by the author. Green cloth covered blind stamped boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Very Good. Spine has 2 small holes 3" tear to cloth at top back joint both hinges starting but holding nicely. Two different prior owner book plates to front paste down James H. Graff of Baltimore and William B. Jensen noted Univ. of Cincinnati chemist and educator. A printed portrait of Buchner tipped onto front end page. Small book seller stamp to bottom of front end page. A foundational text of 19th-century scientific materialism SCARCE in the First English language edition. . Trubner & Co. Hardcover
1989HS-54Chicago Illinois: University of Chicago Press 1989. Comprehensive text presents a new history of the fundamental changes in optical theory at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In the physics of that period ether replaced the particle theory; in mathematics waves replaced rays. Buchwald reconstructs the first empirically successful theory of partial reflection originated by Etienne Louis Malus. He refutes the view of Thomas Young as champion of the wave theory arguing that the wave theory became coherent and new only in the work of French physicist Augustin Fresnel. Buchwald further demonstrates that even scientists who disgarded the particle theory retained its mathematical apparatus preventing their proper use of the new techniques. 474 pgs. Illustrated. Minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. University of Chicago Press Paperback
1978512067MIR Publisher 1978. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD. 640pp. Second Printing. Sewn binding in blue cloth hard covers with silver gilt-lettered spine. With some trivial foxing as commonly seen with this grade of paper otherwise very clean and unmarked with sound square binding; DJ just trivially rubbed along the extremities now wrapped in mylar. A seminal text in Soviet mathematics long out of print and quite scarce in trade. 'The book covers branches of mathematics increasingly .required by phy-sicists such as multiple line and improper integrals the theory of fields and power and trigonometric series. Based on lectures read by the authors in the physics faculty of Moscow University the book endeavours to show the connection between the various mathematical concepts and their applications and wherever possible their physical sense as well.' From the Dust Jacket. MIR Publisher hardcover
196106877Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press 1961. UK Presumed 1st edition No markings slight rubbing to spine extremities Very Good; lacking the dust jacket. Cloth xxiv 542pp index graphs. 3.0 JM LVR 205/1. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Lacking the Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Cambridge Univeristy Press Hardcover
1989056639Faber & Faber 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Ix 286 Pp. Black Cloth Spine Lettered In Red. First Printing Indicated 1. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket Priced $19.95. <br/> <br/> Faber & Faber hardcover
1918032078Haarlem: De Erven Loosjes 1918. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. Xx 265 Pp. Dissertation In Beige Wrappers Printed In Black. Ownership Signature Of H. A. Kramers On Front Cover. Worn Backstrip Perished Partly Unbound But Complete No Other Marks. In 1914 Burgers Entered The University Of Leiden Where He Came To Know Hendrik Lorentz Kamerlingh Onnes Albert Einstein And Niels Bohr And Was In A Group Of Students Of P. T. Ehrenfest That Included D. Coster H. A. Kramers And D. J. Struik. BurgersThe First Of Ehrenfest's Students In Leiden To Complete A Phd Thesis 1918 Wrote His Dissertation On The Rutherford-Bohr Model Of The Atom Completingehrenfest's Work On The Connection Between The Bohr-Sommerfeld Quantization Rules And The Adiabatic Invariants Of Classical Mechanics. Later While At Delft Burgers Quickly Became One Of The World's Leading Authorities On Fluid Dynamics. His First Work Was Devoted To Oseen's Theory Of Flow At Low Reynolds Numbers And Its Connection With Ludwig Prandtl's Work On Airfoils. In 1921 He Met Theodore Von Karman With Whom He Had A Long And Close Professional And Personal Association That Stimulated His Work On Turbulence. In This Field He Was A Pioneer In Using The Hot Wire Anemometer To Probe Velocity Fluctuations In Turbulent Flows. His Work On The Theory Of Turbulence Was Devoted In Large Part To Developing A Statistical Theory Of Turbulence And To Treating Theoretical Models Of Turbulent Flow. In This Connection He Studied What Has Now Become Known As The Burgers Equation Which Is A One-Dimensional Nonlinear Partial Differential Equation Similar In Structure To The Navier-Stokes Equation For The Hydrodynamic Velocity Field. Burgers Collaborated With His Brother In Work On Dislocation In Crystal Lattices; In 1939 He Introduced The Burgers Vector Which Is A Measure Of The Strength Of A Dislocation In A Lattice. He Also Studied The Fluid Dynamics Of Dilute Polymer Solutions And Wrote Some Of The Fundamental Papers On The Intrinsic Viscosity Of Suspensions. This Work Like That On Turbulence And On Dislocations Provided The Foundation For Much Of The Recent Work On This Topic. In 1955 At Age 60 Burgers Left Delft To Join The Faculty Of The University Of Maryland. There He Developed His Interest In The Relation Of The Boltzmann Equation To The Equations Of Fluid Dynamics. <br/> <br/> De Erven Loosjes paperback
1938030544Boston: Little Brown & Company 1938. First Edition First Printing . Grey Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Dustjacket. Photographs. First Edition Stated. Xiii 277 Pp. A Clean Solid Copy Lightly Used No Browning Or Fraying. Hinges Solid. Dj Not Price Clipped Small Chip At Bottom Edge Of Spine 1/4" X 1/2" Chip Near Bottom Of Rear Panel With A Related Closed Tear And Crease. <br/> <br/> Little, Brown, & Company hardcover
1946036003New York: Reinhold Publishning Company 1946. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 325 Pp. Green Cloth Gilt. Stated Second Edition Completely Rewritten To Include Recent Developments Since The First Edition Of 1942; One Of The Authors Directed The Construction Of The First Successful Electron Microscope. Book Is Very Clean Unfaded Light Wear At Corners Gilt Brilliant Hinges Tight Name On Front Free Endpaper. Dj With Wear Spine Faded 1/2" Chip Across Top Of Spine 1/4" Chip At Top Of Front Panel Some Minute Losses. <br/> <br/> Reinhold Publishning Company hardcover
1968PH-176Reading Mass.: Addison Wesley 1968. Classic comprehensive text presents theoretical principles and fundamentals of modern physics emphasizing linear problems including the unifying concepts of linear space. Topics covered include: Fourier series; functions of a complex variable; Laplace transformation; special functions; concepts of the theory of distributions; finite-dimensional linear spaces; infinite-dimensional vector spaces; Green's functions; variational and perturbation methods; tensors; traveling waves radiation scattering; vectors matrices coordinates; etc. 735 pgs. Illustrated. Minor small slight creases to several page edges. Gilt spine. Minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. . Addison Wesley Hardcover
2012AME_9789814324564World Scientific Publishing 2012. 1. Hardcover. New/New. World Scientific Publishing hardcover
1946029535New York: Mcgraw-Hill Book Company 1946. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Photographs Diagrams Charts. 806 Pp. Olive Cloth Gilt. First Edition Stated On Title Page. Scholarly Work With Historical Details Throughout. Near New No MarksGilt Brilliant Covers Immaculate Near New. Walter Guyton Cady 1874 -1974 Was A Noted American Physicist And Electrical Engineer. He Was A Pioneer In Piezoelectricity And In 1921 Developed The First Quartz Crystal Oscillator. Cady Was Born In Providence Rhode Island Graduated From Brown University In 1895 And Studied 1897-1900 At The University Of Berlin Receiving His Ph.D. In Physics In 1900. From 1895 To 1897 He Was Also Instructor In Mathematics At Brown. He Was A Magnetic Observer From 1900 To 1902 With The Coast And Geodetic Survey And From 1902 To 1946 He Was A Professor Of Physics At Wesleyan University Where His Principal Interests Included Electrical Discharges In Gases Piezoelectricity Ultrasound Piezoelectric Resonators And Oscillators And Crystal Devices. Before World War I Cady Investigated Arc Discharges And Radio Detectors But During The War Became Interested In Crystals As He Worked With General Electric Company's Research Laboratory Columbia University And The Naval Experimental Station In New London Connecticut On Using High-Frequency Sound Generated By Piezoelectricity To Detect Submarines. His Early Experiments Employed Rochelle Salt Crystals As Transducers. After Noticing That A Quartz Crystal Connected To A Variable-Frequency Electronic Oscillator Would Vibrate Strongly At A Very Specific Frequency But That At Other Frequencies It Would Not Vibrate At All He Had The Insight To Apply Crystal Oscillators To Radio Frequency Applications. In 1921 Cady Designed The First Circuit To Control Frequencies Based On Quartz Crystal Resonator And Received Two Fundamental Patents On Resonators And Their Applications To Radio In 1923. Cady Quickly Realized That Such Circuits Could Be Used As Frequency Standards In 1922 Published An Ire Paper On This Application And In 1923 Made The First Direct International Comparison Of Frequency Standards By Comparing His Quartz Resonators With Frequency Standards In Italy France England And The United States. Cady Was President Of The Institute Of Radio Engineers In 1932. During World War Ii Cady Again Worked On Military Applications Of Piezoelectricity Including Trainers For Radar Operators That Used Piezoelectric Transducers In Liquid Tanks To Generate Realistic Radar Returns. He Retired To Pasadena California In 1951 Where He Was A Research Associate At Caltech. He Returned To Providence In 1963. After Retirement He Consulted For Industry And The Federal Government. Cady Held More Than 50 Patents And Was The Inventor Of The Crystal-Controlled Oscillator The Highly Selective Narrow-Band Crystal Filter One Of The Principal Theorists Of The Ferroelectricity In Crystals And A Historian Of The Science Of Piezoelectric Crystals. He Won The 1928 Ieee Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award And In 1936 Was The Second American To Receive The Duddell Medal And Prize Of The Physical Society Of London. He Received Honorary Degrees From Brown University In 1938 And From Wesleyan In 1958. His Papers Are Archived At The Smithsonian Institution And The Rhode Island Historical Society. <br/> <br/> Mcgraw-Hill Book Company hardcover